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comparative more ethnic, superlative most ethnic
Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins. examples
Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture. examples
Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression. quotations examples
Indeed, such ethnic music festivals were probably common throughout the country
2008, Ronald D. Cohen, A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States
contemporary artists are victims of the dichotomization of fine art and folk or ethnic art, where the latter must evince standardized techniques of simplicity, naivete, naturalism, and exoticism.
1990, European Review of Native American Studies Volumess 4-6
popular music is usually positioned between classical music on the one hand and folk or ethnic music on the other.
2012, Michael Campbell., Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On
Once you dig below the surface you discover folk, grassroots, and ethnic music throughout the United States
2012, Kip Lornell., Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions
(historical) Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.
plural ethnics
An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community. examples
(archaic) A heathen, a pagan. quotations
..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, […], Preface :
...And the people of God, redeemed and washed with Christ's blood, and dignified with so many glorious titles of saints and sons in the Gospel, are now no better reputed than impure ethnics and lay dogs...
1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England
(in classical scholarship) The demonym of an Ancient Greek city. quotations examples
"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