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Ethnical

Definition: Ethnical

Ethnical

Adjective

1. Relating to or being a member of an ethnic group; "ethnic frontiers"; "ethnic Chinese in San Francisco".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ethnical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

 

Synonym: Ethnical

Synonym: ethnic (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ethnical

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Heterodoxy

Pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical; gentile, paynim; pantheistic, polytheistic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Ethnical

DomainTitle

Books

  • Classical Indian Ethnical Thought: A Philosophical Study of Hindu, Jaina and Bauddha Morals (reference)

  • Ethnical Asia (World Textile Collection, No. 3) (reference)

  • Ethnical U.S.A. (World Textile Collection, No 9) (reference)

  • Iranian Ethnical Songs & Music (reference)

  • The national integration of Mapuche, ethnical minority in Chile (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ethnical

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Particularly popular at present are the color combinations of royal blue and yellow and earthen colors with ethnical motives (South American, African, and Mexican). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ethnical

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ethnical pattern

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ethnical

Language Translations for "ethnical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

etnik (ethnic), folklorik (ethnic, folk, folkloric). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وثني (ethnic, gentile, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan, profane), ‏عرقي (ethnic, racial, racialist, racist, sudoriferous, venous), ‏أصلي (authentic, bona fide, ethnic, fundamental, genetic, genetical, original, overriding, premier, prime, primordial, pristine, proper, pukka, radical, true). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

етнически (ethnic). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

种族 (Ethnic, ethnicity, Racial). (various references)

   

Czech

  

etnický (ethnic). (various references)

   

French

  

ethnique (ethnic). (various references)

   

German

  

ethnische. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εθνικόσ (ethnic, national). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

faji (ethnic, generic, racial, specific), etnikai (ethnic), néprajzi (ethnic, ethnographic, ethnographical), etnológiai (ethnic, ethnologic, ethnological). (various references)

   

Italian

  

etnico (ethnic, heathen). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

인종 (Ethnic, RACE, Racial). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kynneeagh (ethnic, racial). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ethnicalay

   

Portuguese

  

etnológico (ethnic, ethnology), sociedade étnica, étnico (ethnic). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

etnic (ethnic). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

этнический (ethnic), языческий (ethnic, heathen, heathenish, paganish). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

etnički (ethnic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

étnico (ethnic). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

etnologisk (ethnological), etnisk (ethnic), ras- (ethnic, racial), folk- (ethnic, national, popular). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

etnik (ethnic), ırksal (ethnic, racial). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

язичеський (ethnic, gentile, heathenish, infidel, pagan). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô thần (ethnic, godless), thuộc tộc người không theo tôn giáo n o (ethnic), thuộc dân tộc (ethnic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ethnical

Derivations

Words beginning with "ethnical": ethnically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ethnical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: echnical, ethnica, Othonial, tehnical. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ethnical"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ethnical" (pronounced e"thnikul)
5-n i k u lbotanical, conical, cynical, ecumenical, electromechanical, galenical, ironical, mechanical, nontechnical, preclinical, puritanical, rabbinical, technical, tyrannical.
4-i k u lacoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, evangelical, fanatical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological.
3-k u laeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ethnical

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: ethical.

-2 letters: acetin, atelic, canthi, cantle, catlin, centai, cental, chaine, chalet, chital, client, enatic, entail, ethnic, halite, hantle, heliac, inhale, inlace, lancet, lectin, lentic, lichen, tenail, thecal, thenal, tincal, tineal.

-3 letters: actin, aitch, alien, aline, anile, antic, chain, chant, cheat, chela, chiel, chile, china, chine, clean, cleat, cline, eclat, elain, elint, enact, entia.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: chatelain, chelating, chelation, technical, thylacine, unethical.

 

+2 letters: anthelices, chatelaine, chatelains, chelations, chlorinate, ethnically, hatcheling, inchoately, nonethical, technicals, thylacines, unathletic.

 

+3 letters: calisthenic, candlelight, cephalothin, chanticleer, chatelaines, chlorinated, chlorinates, ethicalness, hallucinate, hatchelling, intrathecal, lecithinase, nonathletic, stickhandle, technically, untechnical.

 

+4 letters: analphabetic, anthelmintic, antithetical, biotechnical, calisthenics, candlelights, cartwheeling, cephalothins, chanticleers, dechlorinate, echolocation, encephalitic, encephalitis, enchantingly, ethnological, geotechnical, hallucinated, hallucinates, inchoatively, interchannel, lecithinases, multichannel, nontechnical, phenotypical, phonetically, plainclothes, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandles, technicality, technicalize, uncharitable, unhysterical, unrhetorical, zootechnical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ethnical


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 74 68 6E 69 63 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110100 01101000 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#116 &#104 &#110 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0074 0068 006E 0069 0063 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3986748075696778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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