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ethnic minorities

ethnic minorities is the plural of ethnic minority.

Meaning of ethnic minority

Noun

ethnic minority (plural ethnic minorities)

  1. A group of people who have a different ethnicity, religion, language or culture from that of the majority of people in the place where they live.
    • Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian

Questions about ethnic minorities

What is ethnic minorities the plural of?
Ethnic minorities is the plural of ethnic minority.

Words near ethnic minorities in the dictionary

  1. ethnic glosses
  2. ethnic group
  3. ethnic groups
  4. ethnic majorities
  5. ethnic majority
  6. ethnic minorities
  7. ethnic minority
  8. ethnic music
  9. ethnic musics
  10. ethnic purge
  11. ethnic purges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ethnic minorities (page history and authors); ethnic minority (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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