Definition of ethnicity
ethnicities
1 : ethnic quality or affiliation aspects of ethnicity
2 : a particular ethnic affiliation or group students of diverse ethnicities
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Examples of ethnicity in a Sentence
a university that aggressively recruits a student body of diverse ethnicities
Recent Examples of ethnicity from the Web
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Nobody mentions race or ethnicity, and the discussion reverts to traffic management.
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Jesse J. Holland covers race and ethnicity for The Associated Press in Washington.
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The government would not authorize killing based on ethnicity.
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The movement to collect the information, which some public health experts compare in significance to gathering patient data on race and ethnicity, is gaining traction.
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The Air and Sea Show and Urban Beach Week brought big crowds — families, young revelers and seniors of all races and ethnicities — to South Beach for Memorial Day Weekend.
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Although the birth rate declined across all races and ethnicities in Chicago in 2014, racial and ethnic disparities exist, with slightly higher rates among non-Hispanic black and Hispanic teens.
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Portland is home to a rough estimate of about 50,000 Muslims of different ethnicities.
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Mr. Basuki remains popular with middle-class Jakartans of all ethnicities and has rebounded in the polls since being charged with blasphemy in November.
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1920
First Known Use of ethnicity
1920
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