source: きゅん♡

relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition:

〖通例名詞の前で〗(同じ言語･文化を共有する)民族［人種］の, 民族的な; 民族学(上)の(ethnologic(ethnological))

e.g. leaders of ethnic communities.

relating to national and cultural origins:

e.g. two playwrights of different ethnic origins.

denoting origin by birth or descent rather than by present nationality:

e.g. ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

characteristic of or belonging to a non-Western cultural tradition:

more ～; most ～ 民族特有の, エスニック風の; 異国情緒あふれる (!英米とは異なる料理･衣服･音楽などに対して用いる)

e.g. ethnic dishes

e.g. folk and ethnic music.

archaic neither Christian nor Jewish; pagan or heathen.

｟古｠ 異教の(heathen)

noun dated or offensive

a member of an ethnic minority.

｟主に米｠ (特定の社会の)少数民族の人

late Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos ‘heathen’, from ethnos ‘nation’. Current senses date from the 19th century.