ETHNIC GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ethnic group mean? 

• ETHNIC GROUP (noun)
  The noun ETHNIC GROUP has 1 sense:

1. people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture

  Familiarity information: ETHNIC GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHNIC GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ethnic group; ethnos

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)

 Context examples 

The relationship between epigenetic age and mortality was significant within both sexes and across all the ethnic groups in the study.

(DNA changes predict longevity, NIH)

Every racial or ethnic group has specific health concerns.

(African American Health, NIH)

The term comprises individuals belonging to a large number of tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as political communities.

(Native American, NCI Thesaurus)

It is predominantly a disease of older white women of northern European extraction, but it is seen in all ages and ethnic groups.

(Ovarian Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mortality may be reported for people who have a certain disease, live in one area of the country, or who are of a certain gender, age, or ethnic group.

(Mortality, NCI Dictionary)

The term includes individuals belonging to a large number of tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as communities.

(American Indian, NCI Thesaurus)

The team collected data from 49,839 African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian, Native American and people who identified as others and were not defined by those ethnic groups.

(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)

A minority is a group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it, often people with different nationality, religion, culture or lifestyle from that of the mainstream in the society; racial or ethnic groups officially recognized by the U.S. government as minority populations.

(Minority Group, NCI Thesaurus)

The study aimed to better understand how genomic variants influence the risk of forming certain diseases in people of different ethnic groups.

(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)