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Definition: Ethnocentric |
EthnocentricAdjective1. Centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | Several are tied to distinct ethnic groups, especially the Amharas and Oromos, and severely criticize the Government for being ethnocentric. (references) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ethnocentric | 16 |
ethnocentric sculpture | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 этноцентричный, националистический (nationalist, nationalistic). (various references) etnocentrisk. (various references) vị chủng, cho dân tộc mình l hơn cả. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ethnocentric": ethnocentricities, ethnocentricity. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ethnocentric" (pronounced e'thnōse"ntrik) |
| 8 | -ō s e" n t r i k | egocentric, geocentric. |
| 7 | -s e" n t r i k | anthropocentric, concentric, eccentric. |
| 5 | -n t r i k | tantric. |
| 4 | -t r i k | barometric, citric, dissymmetric, econometric, electric, gastric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hydroelectric, metric, nitric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, psychiatric, vitric. |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 74 68 6E 6F 63 65 6E 74 72 69 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110100 01101000 01101110 01101111 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E t h n o c e n t r i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0074 0068 006E 006F 0063 0065 006E 0074 0072 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398674808169718086847569 |
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