Ethnic vs Melograph - What's the difference?
ethnic | melograph |
Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.
Belonging to a foreign culture.
(historical) Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.
An ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
An ethnic minority. (rfex)
(archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
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* 1641 . .
(in classical scholarship ) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
* 2006 . Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin & North Africa , 151.
As nouns the difference between ethnic and melograph
is that ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community while melograph is a device designed for analysing and plotting the frequency characteristics of ethnic music.As an adjective ethnic
is of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.ethnic
English
Alternative forms
* ethnick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands
- I like to eat ethnic food
Derived terms
* antiethnic * ethnic cleansing * ethnic group * ethnic minoritySynonyms
* (culturally foreign) exotic * (heathen) pagan, gentileNoun
(en noun)- ..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...
- ...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...
- "Coinage with the ethnic ????????? ???? ???????? survives from the mid-second century A.D."