| 单词 | ethnicity |
| 释义 | ethnicity (once / 13326 pages) n A person's ethnicity is their ethnic traits, classification, or association. If your ethnicity is Italian, you might speak Italian in the home and eat Italian food. Or you might simply refer to yourself as Italian and identify with your ethnicity in no other way. Usually, ethnicity is a collective noun, but in the singular, an ethnicity is a particular ethnic group. The adjective ethnic relates to large groups of people who have certain racial, cultural, religious, or other traits in common. In Middle English, ethnic meant heathen or pagan. The word is from Late Latin ethnicus, from Greek ethnikos "foreign," from ethnos "nation." WORD FAMILYethnicity: ethnicities+/ethnic: ethnical, ethnically, ethnicity, ethnics, multi-ethnic, multiethnic USAGE EXAMPLESLane said categorizing foods by ethnicity is commonplace in the restaurant industry. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) This was a year in which vulgarity, divisiveness and exclusion won – a triumph for dystopian visions of race, nation and ethnicity. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) “To bring in people of different ethnicities and from different backgrounds just felt important.” Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) n an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations Hyper quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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