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Ethnic vs Garifuna - What's the difference?

ethnic | garifuna |

As nouns the difference between ethnic and garifuna

is that ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community while Garifuna is an individual member of the Garinagu.

As an adjective ethnic

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

As a proper noun Garifuna is

the language of the Garinagu people.

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

    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."

    garifuna

    Alternative forms

    * * Garifune

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An individual member of the Garinagu.
  • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language of the Garinagu people.
  • (label) The Garinagu collectively.
  • Usage notes

    Properly, the term refers to the individual and the language, while Garinagu is the plural or collective term for the people.

    Synonyms

    * Black Caribs

    See also

    * Garinagu

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