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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or including several ethnic groups.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or consisting of several
ethnic groups . - noun A member of more than one
ethnic group .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving several ethnic groups
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Examples
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The fact was the al Sadr lived in multiethnic neighborhoods but he was seen as someone not ready to concede the dollars in oil to American business.
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The cast of characters gives new meaning to the word multiethnic, reflecting the roles of Noah's three sons - Shem, Ham and Japheth - as the forefathers of all mankind.
FilmChat 2008
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Damir pointed out a salient problem with the west’s 1990s policies towards the breakup of Yugoslavia … there was a lot of solipsistic, “we can live in multiethnic harmony here, so Bosnia should be a multiethnic cooperative state, too!”
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Nearby, a large group of Asians, whites and Hispanics danced and sang in concentric circles around guitarists and drummers, chanting, "Hallelujah" under a banner for the Iglesia Inmaculado Corazon de Maria from Newark, N.J. Terry Perez of Annandale, Va., a naturalized U.S. citizen from the Philippines, called the multiethnic crowd "a little bit of the United Nations."
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Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped.
unknown title 2009
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My mom was Mexican and French and my dad was Venezuelan and Dutch; I prefer to be referred to as multiethnic or Hispanic.
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LNN: You are currently seeking submissions for a "multiethnic" issue of horror.
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LNN: You are currently seeking submissions for a "multiethnic" issue of horror.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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My sister considers herself "multiethnic" which is her right.
Obama Census Choice: African-American Steven Barnes 2010
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The problem is for Turkish nationalism to accept Kurdish nationalism and to accept a kind of multiethnic society within Turkey.
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