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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ethnic \Eth"nic\n.
A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.]
No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs.
--Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ethnic \Eth"nic\, Ethnical \Eth"nic*al\, a. [L. ethnicus Gr ?,
fr ? nation, ? ? the nations, heathens, gentiles: cf F.
ethnique.]
1. Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of
race; ethnological.
2. Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to
Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to {Jewish} and
{Christian}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ethnic
adj 1: relating to or being a member of an ethnic group "ethnic
frontiers"; "ethnic Chinese in San Francisco" [syn: {ethnical}]
2: denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of
living built up by a group of people; "influenced by
ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food"
[syn: {cultural}]
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