Ethnic vs Native - What's the difference?
ethnic | native | Synonyms |
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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(in classical scholarship ) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
* 2006 . Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin & North Africa , 151.
Belonging to one by birth.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
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Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
(biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.
(computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
(mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
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Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
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A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
(lb) A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
Ethnic is a synonym of native.
As adjectives the difference between ethnic and native
is that ethnic is of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins while native is belonging to the native inhabitants of the americas or australia; in particular:.As nouns the difference between ethnic and native
is that ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community while native is an aboriginal inhabitant of the americas or australia; in particular:.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."
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This is my native land.
- English is not my native language.
- I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
- What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
- The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.
- a native inhabitant
- native oysters or strawberries
- Many native artists studied abroad.
- The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
- This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
- The native integer size is sixteen bits.
- Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native , rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
- native dust
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- The head is not more native to the heart, / Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
Antonyms
* foreign, fremdDerived terms
* go native * native soil * native speaker * native witNoun
(en noun)- Some natives must have stolen our cattle.