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Definition of ethnic noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ethnic

noun
 
/ˈeθnɪk/
 
/ˈeθnɪk/
 (especially North American English, old-fashioned, offensive)
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  1. a person from an ethnic minority
    Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos ‘heathen’, from ethnos ‘nation’. Current senses date from the 19th cent.
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