{
    "term": "ethnic",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "connected with or belonging to a group of people that share a cultural tradition",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**ethnic background/origin**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**ethnic strife/tensions/violence** *(= between different ethnic groups)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our government should reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of our country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "ethnic Albanians living in Germany"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country is divided along ethnic lines."
                },
                {
                    "text": "people from different ethnic backgrounds"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This region of Bulgaria has a large ethnic Turkish population."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I did not want to be classified according to my skin colour or ethnic origin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Experience has taught me that our community benefits from expanding ethnic diversity."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["People in society"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "typical of a country or culture that is very different from modern Western culture and therefore interesting for people in Western countries",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**ethnic clothes/jewellery/cooking**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There has been an explosion in the popularity of ethnic crafts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a stall selling ethnic jewellery from Afghanistan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the rising popularity of ethnic foods"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈeθnɪk/",
                "audio": "et/ethnic/ethnic__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈeθnɪk/",
                "audio": "et/ethnic/ethnic__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos ‘heathen’, from ethnos ‘nation’. Current senses date from the 19th cent."
}