ethnicity
/ɛθˈnɪsɪti/
ethnicity noun: the common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.
Noun
ethnicity (countable and uncountable, plural ethnicities)
- The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse...2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 164
- An ethnic group.
- As a young Asian American, I was lucky growing up in an inclusive suburb, where although known to be predominantly Caucasian, all blends of cultures and ethnicities were embodied in the school populations. That said, the “K-wave” had not reached the depths of Naperville yet, and I remember K-pop...2021 December 14, Hibaq Farah, quoting Zee S, “‘BTS taught me that I am worthy’: readers on why they love the K-pop superstars”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2022
- Race; common ancestry.
ethnicity meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
ethnicity in Hindi
- characteristics of an ethnic group
- क़ौमियत qaumiyat, कौमियत kaumiyat, ज़ात zāt
- ethnic group
- क़ौम qaum, कौम kaum, ज़ात zāt
ethnicity in Urdu
- characteristics of an ethnic group
- قَومِیَت qaumiyat
ethnicity in Bengali
- ethnicity, race
- জাতি jati
- ethnicity; community; race; jati; caste
- জাত jat, জাইত jait
More languagesFewer languages
- ethnicity in Punjabi
- نسل nasl, ਨਸਲ nasal
- ethnicity in Assamese
- জাতি zati
- ethnicity in Arabic
- إِثْنِيَّة ʔiṯniyya, مَجْمُوعَة إِثْنِيَّة majmūʕa ʔiṯniyya
- ethnicity in Indonesian
- kesukuan, etnis, suku bangsa
- ethnicity in Thai
- ชาติพันธุ์ châat-dtì-pan, เชื้อชาติ chʉ́ʉa-châat, กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์ glùm-châat-dtì-pan
- ethnicity in Vietnamese
- sắc tộc, sắc dân
- ethnicity in Myanmar
- လူမျိုး lu-myui:
Examples of ethnicity in a sentence
- The Brazilian population is multiethnic—that is, it has many ethnicities.
- The Greeks and Romans tended to credit nearly every location and ethnicity to a legendary eponym, Hellas to Hellen, Rome to Romulus, Egypt to Aegyptus, etc.
- (Music in a distinct style associated with an ethnicity.): Hungarians produce a lot of good rock and hip hop music, but it's their ethnic music that I find especially interesting.
Forms of ethnicity
| plural | ethnicities |
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Origin of ethnicity
From ethnic + -ity.
Words formed from ethnicity
Words that rhyme with ethnicity
- felicity
- simplicity
- elasticity
- electricity
- atomicity
- publicity
- laicity
- historicity
- infelicity
- plasticity
- syntheticity
- triplicity
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Questions about ethnicity
- What does ethnicity mean?
- Ethnicity means the common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.
- What is ethnicity in Hindi?
- Ethnicity in Hindi is क़ौमियत (qaumiyat), कौमियत (kaumiyat), ज़ात (zāt). See Ethnicity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ethnicity?
- Ethnicity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ethnicity?
- Ethnicity is pronounced /ɛθˈnɪsɪti/.
- What is the plural of ethnicity?
- The plural of ethnicity is ethnicities.
Words near ethnicity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ethnicity (page history and authors); জাইত (Bengali) (page history and authors); ethnicity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); نسل (Punjabi) (page history and authors); জাতি (Assamese) (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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