Meaning & use
Ethnical
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Relating to ethnicity or to a particular ethnic group or people.
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The census recorded the ethnical composition of the region's population.
Scholars debated the ethnical origins of the ancient artifacts.
A note on using this word
Ethnical is a rarer, older variant of 'ethnic'; in older texts it sometimes carried the now-obsolete sense of 'heathen' or 'pagan,' distinguishing gentile nations from Jews and Christians.
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ethnicracial
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