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ETHNIC GROUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("ethnic group" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ethnic group"):
ethnic minority (a group that has different national or cultural traditions from the majority of the population)
Azeri (an ethnic group living in Azerbaijan)
Bengali (an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India)
Flemish (an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium)
Hebrews; Israelites (the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19))
Mbundu; Ovimbundu (an ethnic group speaking Umbundu and living in western Angola)
Tadzhik; Tajik (an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China)
Walloons (an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France)
Aborigine; Australian Aborigine; native Australian (a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived)
Kurd (a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state)
Igbo (a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria)
Nubian (a native or inhabitant of Nubia)
