ethnic group

Questions about ethnic group

What is another word for ethnic group?

It depends which ethnic group you mean. In the sense “people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture”, the synonyms are ethnos. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of ethnic group?

WordNet records no antonym for ethnic group. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for ethnic group come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of ethnic group

• Full entry for ethnic groupAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ethnic groupWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.