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ethnostate

ethnostate noun: a political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group.

Noun

ethnostate (plural ethnostates)

  1. A political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group.
    • Richard Spencer and others fantasize about a white ethno-state — this is the Northwest Territorial Imperative, or Northwest Imperative, that would stretch from Montana to Oregon and Washington State.2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2020
    • In an email to CNN, Gariépy denied a CBC news article’s characterization of him as supporting “ideas of white superiority and white ‘ethnostates,’” saying, “no proper context was provided by the journalist to understand the circumstances in which I discussed these subjects in the past.”2021 February 19, Rob Kuznia, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Sara Sidner and Mallory Simon, “How White nationalists evade the law and continue profiting off hate”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Dec...

Forms of ethnostate

pluralethnostates
alternative formethno-state

Origin of ethnostate

From ethno- + state.

Words formed from ethnostate

Questions about ethnostate

What does ethnostate mean?
Ethnostate means a political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group.
What part of speech is ethnostate?
Ethnostate is a noun.
What is the plural of ethnostate?
The plural of ethnostate is ethnostates.

Words near ethnostate in the dictionary

  1. ethnosociologist
  2. ethnosociologists
  3. ethnosociology
  4. ethnospecies
  5. ethnospecific
  6. ethnostate
  7. ethnostates
  8. ethnostatism
  9. ethnostatistical
  10. ethnostatistics
  11. ethnosuicide

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