multiethnic

See also: multi-ethnic

English

Alternative forms

multi-ethnic

Etymology

From multi- +‎ ethnic.

Adjective

multiethnic (comparative more multiethnic, superlative most multiethnic)

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of several ethnic groups.
- 1993 Alexander J. Motyl - Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism
  In general, they are propagating the image of Ukrainians as the European descendants of good peasant stock, of multiethnic pioneers, and of an ancient multiethnic state.
- 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 3:
  As a multicultural and multiethnic society, Singapore has four official languages: Malay, Mandarin, Tamil, and English, with Malay considered the national language and English as a nominally neutral ‘working language’ allowing communication across all communities.

Usage notes

In 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, seven found the term “multiethnic” offensive and 23 indicated it was a preferred term.[1]

Derived terms

multiethnicity

Translations

of, pertaining to, or consisting of several ethnic groups

Chinese:
Mandarin: 多民族 (zh) (duōmínzú)
Esperanto: pluretna
Estonian: paljurahvuseline
Finnish: monikansallinen (fi), monietninen (fi)
French: multiethnique (fr) m or f
German: multiethnisch
Irish: il-eitneach
Norman: multiéthnique
Russian: мультиэтни́ческий (ru) (mulʹtietníčeskij), многонациона́льный (ru) (mnogonacionálʹnyj)

Noun

multiethnic (plural multiethnics)

A member of more than one ethnic group.

References

Aspinall, Peter J. (April 2009), “'Mixed Race', 'Mixed Origins' or What? Generic Terminology for the Multiple Racial/Ethnic Group Population”, in Anthropology Today‎, volume 25, issue 2, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00653.x, ISSN 0268-540X, JSTOR 20528211, OCLC 787833449, archived from the original on 2010-07-15, pages 3–8

[1] Aspinall, Peter J. (April 2009), “'Mixed Race', 'Mixed Origins' or What? Generic Terminology for the Multiple Racial/Ethnic Group Population”, in Anthropology Today‎, volume 25, issue 2, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00653.x, ISSN 0268-540X, JSTOR 20528211, OCLC 787833449, archived from the original on 2010-07-15, pages 3–8