ethnic group

Questions about ethnic group

What does ethnic group mean?

ethnic group means "people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture".

What is another word for ethnic group?

Close synonyms include ethnos. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ethnic group a common word?

ethnic group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.