ethnicity
noun
eth·nic·i·ty
eth-ˈni-sə-tē 
plural ethnicities
1
: ethnic quality or affiliation
aspects of ethnicity
2
: a particular ethnic affiliation or group
students of diverse ethnicities
Examples of ethnicity in a Sentence
a university with a student body of diverse ethnicities
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Minnesota does not track crime by ethnicity, and violent crime statewide has fallen, but the visibility of Somali suspects in these cases has amplified and revived old narratives about crime within Minnesota’s Somali community.
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Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025
The Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction is known for its interest in the porosity of boundaries—between nations, between ethnicities, between fiction and reality, consciousness and dreams.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
And dissidence and utopianism, new ways of life, other—othered—ethnicities, and hybrid identities were universally amenable.
—Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Born to Dominican parents and raised in a Spanish-speaking household (in a predominantly white neighborhood in New Jersey), Lopez grappled with her race and ethnicity until moving to South Florida.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
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Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025
The Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction is known for its interest in the porosity of boundaries—between nations, between ethnicities, between fiction and reality, consciousness and dreams.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
And dissidence and utopianism, new ways of life, other—othered—ethnicities, and hybrid identities were universally amenable.
—Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Born to Dominican parents and raised in a Spanish-speaking household (in a predominantly white neighborhood in New Jersey), Lopez grappled with her race and ethnicity until moving to South Florida.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ethnicity
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“Ethnicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnicity. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
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