ethnic
noun/ˈeθnɪk/
/ˈeθnɪk/
(especially North American English, old-fashioned, offensive)- a person from an ethnic minorityWord Originlate Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos ‘heathen’, from ethnos ‘nation’. Current senses date from the 19th cent.
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