Synonyms of ethnic

ethnic

adjective

ˈeth-nik 

as in racial

of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture

a festival featuring ethnic food and music

Synonyms & Similar Words

• racial
• ethnical
• tribal
• cultural
• familial
• national
• multicultural
• folk
• kin
• kindred
• multiculti

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ethnic

Racial profiling is the discriminatory mistreatment of racial, ethnic, or religious minorities by police officers and other law enforcement or security personnel. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries. — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Within the immigrant indigenous Muslim community, there were divisions created between ethnic lines and linguistics lines and many other lines. — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026

Fighting between the ethnic Rakhine group the Arakan Army and Myanmar's junta over control of Rakhine state forced more Rohingya to flee. — Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026