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Heritage vs Ethnic - What's the difference?

heritage | ethnic |

As nouns the difference between heritage and ethnic

is that heritage is heritage, inheritance, legacy while ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

As an adjective ethnic is

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

heritage

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
  • A tradition; something that can be passed down from preceding generations.
  • A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
  • (attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
    • The university requires heritage''' Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-'''heritage students.

    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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