Eth·nic Eth·nic·al a.
  1. Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
  2. Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.
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  Eth·nic n.
  1. A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.]
     No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs.   --Milton.
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  ethnic
       adj 1: denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of
              living built up by a group of people; "influenced by
              ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food"
              [syn: cultural, ethnical]
       2: not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and
          Islam [syn: heathen, heathenish, pagan]