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Creed vs Ethnic - What's the difference?

creed | ethnic |

As nouns the difference between creed and ethnic

is that creed is that which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to while ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

As a verb creed

is to believe; to credit.

As an adjective ethnic is

of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.

creed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
  • A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a definite summary of what is believed; a confession of faith for public use; especially, one which is brief and comprehensive.
  • * A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs
  • (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
    • The precipice she stood on was immense, / So was her creed in her own innocence.

    Derived terms

    * Apostles' Creed * Athanasian Creed * Nicene Creed

    Related terms

    * credible * credibility * credit * creditable * creditor * credence * credential * credo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To believe; to credit.

    • References

    * * ----

    ethnic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ethnick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.
    • There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands
  • Belonging to a foreign culture.
    • I like to eat ethnic food
  • (historical) Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.

    • Derived terms

    * antiethnic * ethnic cleansing * ethnic group * ethnic minority

    Related terms

    * ethnicity * ethnically * ethnical * ethnicity * ethnocentric * ethnocultural * ethnography * ethnologeny * ethnology

    Synonyms

    * (culturally foreign) exotic * (heathen) pagan, gentile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
  • An ethnic minority. (rfex)
  • (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
  • *
    • ..for the learned know that even in St. Jerome's time, the consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics , and about the same time the greatest part of the senate also...
  • * 1641 . .
    • ...And the people of God, redeemed and washed with Christ's blood, and dignified with so many glorious titles of saints and sons in the Gospel, are now no better reputed than impure ethnics and lay dogs...
  • (in classical scholarship ) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
  • * 2006 . Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin & North Africa , 151.
    • "Coinage with the ethnic ????????? ???? ???????? survives from the mid-second century A.D."

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