Definitions for ethnicity

ethnicity eth·nic·i·ty

Spelling: [eth-nis-i-tee]
IPA: /ɛθˈnɪs ɪ ti/

Ethnicity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in ethnicity (cehiintty).

Definitions for ethnicity

noun

  1. an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like:
  2. ethnic traits, background, allegiance, or association:

Origin of ethnicity

1765-75, for earlier sense; ethnic + -ity

Examples for ethnicity

A group of California legislators looking to protect “their own” based on race and ethnicity shows us why this is true.

Surkov, who is on the U.S. sanctions list, is of Chechen ethnicity.

Working as a busboy in Miami during the 1980s, Rameau often faced racism due to his ethnicity.

Everyone is a target at any moment despite his ethnicity or belief.

Moreno is the only Hispanic, and one of the few performers of any ethnicity, to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony.

When will the FBI finally stop using religion and ethnicity as a reason to investigate Americans?

Muslim refers to religion while Arab is an ethnicity and in fact more than 60 percent of Arab Americans are Christians.

So with ethnicity, for example, it means they were targeted because of an ancestral, cultural, social, or national affiliation.

The Southerners had history, ethnicity, culture, slavery, religion, and a quasi-aristocratic honor society to hold them together.

“Those are the two most prevalent categories every year,” Wilson said of ethnicity and race.

Word Value for ethnicity
Scrable

17

Words with friends

17

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