ETHNICITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does ethnicity mean? • ETHNICITY (noun)
The noun ETHNICITY has 1 sense:
1. an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
Familiarity information: ETHNICITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ETHNICITY (noun)
Meaning:
An ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations
Hypernyms ("ethnicity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
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