ethnic
adj.adj. relating to a group of people who share the same culture, language, or history. You use it to describe things that belong to a specific national or cultural tradition.
adj. relating to a population subgroup with a common national or cultural tradition. Often used to categorise cultural products, such as food or clothing, that originate from a specific non-Western heritage.
The city has many different ethnic restaurants.
The festival celebrates the ethnic diversity of the local community through traditional music and dance.
Sociologists often examine how ethnic identity is maintained across generations when a minority group lives within a dominant culture that does not share its traditions.
From Middle English ethnik, from Latin ethnicus ("pagan", "heathen"), from Ancient Greek ἐθνικός (ethnikós, “of or for a nation, heathen”), from ἔθνος (éthnos, “a company", later "a people or nation, heathens”). By surface analysis, ethno- + -ic.
Typically used as an attributive adjective before a noun. While the metadata lists it as a noun, the adjective sense is significantly more common in modern general-service English.
He is an ethnic.He belongs to an ethnic group.In modern English, using 'ethnic' as a noun to refer to a person is often considered offensive or grammatically incomplete; it should be used as an adjective.