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ethnics

ethnics is the plural of ethnic.

Meaning of ethnic

Noun

ethnic (plural ethnics)

  1. An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
  2. (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
    • ..for the learned know that even in St. Jerome's time, the consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics, and about the same time the greatest part of the senate also...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Preface
  3. The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
    • Coinage with the ethnic ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΦΡΑΤΗΝ survives from the mid-second century A.D.2006. Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin & North Africa, 151

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Questions about ethnics

What is ethnics the plural of?
Ethnics is the plural of ethnic.

Words near ethnics in the dictionary

  1. ethnick
  2. ethnicks
  3. ethnicky
  4. ethnicness
  5. ethnicon
  6. ethnics
  7. ethnie
  8. ethnies
  9. ethnika
  10. ethnikon
  11. ethnisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ethnics (page history and authors); ethnic (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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