| a. | 1. | Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological. |
| 2. | Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; - opposed to | |
| 3. | of or pertaining to a group having a distinct racial, cultural, religious or linguistic character; | |
| 4. | being a member of a distinct racial or cultural minority within a larger population; | |
| n. | 1. | A heathen; a pagan. |
| 2. | a member of an ethnic group. |
| Adj. | 1. | ethnic - denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; "influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food" |
| 2. | ethnic - not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam |
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