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Ethnocentric

Definition: Ethnocentric

Ethnocentric

Adjective

1. Centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own.

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

 

Non-Fiction Usage: Ethnocentric

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

Several are tied to distinct ethnic groups, especially the Amharas and Oromos, and severely criticize the Government for being ethnocentric. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Ethnocentric

"Ethnocentric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ethnocentric" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4054,274

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ethnocentric

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

ethnocentric

16

ethnocentric sculpture

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ethnocentric

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

Chinese 

  

种族中心主意. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نژادپرست (Racist), قوم مدار, طرفداربرتری نژادی . (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

etnosentris. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ethnocentricay

   

Russian 

  

этноцентричный, националистический (nationalist, nationalistic). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

etnocentrisk. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vị chủng, cho dân tộc mình l hơn cả. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ethnocentric

Derivations

Words beginning with "ethnocentric": ethnocentricities, ethnocentricity. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ethnocentric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ehtnocentric, enthocentric, etheocentric, ethnocentris, ethnocenttic, ethnocetric, etnnocentric, theocentric. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Ethnocentric"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ethnocentric" (pronounced e'thnōse"ntrik)
8-ō s e" n t r i kegocentric, geocentric.
7-s e" n t r i kanthropocentric, concentric, eccentric.
5-n t r i ktantric.
4-t r i kbarometric, citric, dissymmetric, econometric, electric, gastric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hydroelectric, metric, nitric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, psychiatric, vitric.
3-r i kalphanumeric, atmospheric, Baldric, barbaric, boric, caloric, choric, cleric, Derrick, esoteric, euphoric, fabric, generic, hemispheric, historic, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, lyric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, numeric, pinprick, prehistoric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, vampiric.

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

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Anagrams: Ethnocentric

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: technetronic.

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-t-t"

-1 letter: theocentric.

-2 letters: incoherent.

-3 letters: concenter, connecter, heterotic, reconnect, retention, theoretic, thereinto, threonine.

-4 letters: cicerone, coherent, coinhere, concerti, concrete, contrite, corniche, cretonne, croceine, crotchet, enchoric, enthetic, enthrone, entrench, erection, hereinto, incenter, inherent, inthrone, intrench, necrotic, neotenic, neoteric, renitent, reticent, ricochet, tectonic, tenorite, tetchier, thirteen, trecento.

-5 letters: centner, centric, cerotic, cheerio, chinone, chitter, choicer, choreic, chorine, chronic.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-t-t"
 

+3 letters: ethnocentricity, nonarchitecture.

 

+4 letters: nonarchitectures.

 

+5 letters: ethnocentricities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ethnocentric


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

45 74 68 6E 6F 63 65 6E 74 72 69 63

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 01101111 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0074 0068 006E 006F 0063 0065 006E 0074 0072 0069 0063

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

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

398674808169718086847569

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INDEX

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


  

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