transcription, транскрипция: [ eθnɪk ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Ethnic means connected with or relating to different racial or cultural groups of people.
...a survey of Britain’s ethnic minorities.
...ethnic tensions.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
• eth‧ni‧cal‧ly
...a predominantly young, ethnically mixed audience.
ADV : usu ADV -ed / adj
2.
You can use ethnic to describe people who belong to a particular racial or cultural group but who, usually, do not live in the country where most members of that group live.
There are still several million ethnic Germans in Russia.
ADJ : ADJ n
• eth‧ni‧cal‧ly
...a large ethnically Albanian population.
ADV : ADV adj
3.
Ethnic clothing, music, or food is characteristic of the traditions of a particular ethnic group, and different from what is usually found in modern Western culture.
...a magnificent range of ethnic fabrics.
ADJ