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transethnic

transethnic adjective: encompassing more than one ethnicity.

Adjective

transethnic (not comparable)

  1. Encompassing more than one ethnicity.
    • transethnic adoption (compare transracial adoption)
    • a transethnic language (one spoken by several ethnic groups)

Origin of transethnic

From trans- + ethnic.

Questions about transethnic

What does transethnic mean?
Transethnic means encompassing more than one ethnicity.
What part of speech is transethnic?
Transethnic is an adjective.

Words near transethnic in the dictionary

  1. transesterify
  2. transesterifying
  3. transetherification
  4. transetherifications
  5. transethmoidal
  6. transethnic
  7. transethnicity
  8. transeunt
  9. transeuntly
  10. Transeuphrataean
  11. Transeuphratean

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