Definition of Ethnos

1. Noun. People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.


Definition of Ethnos

1. a group of people who share a common and distinctive culture [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethnos

ethnopharmacology
ethnophaulic
ethnophaulisms
ethnophilia
ethnophilias
ethnophobia
ethnophobias
ethnopoetic
ethnopoetics
ethnopsychology
ethnoracism
ethnorelativism
ethnoreligious
ethnoreligiously
ethnos (current term)
ethnoscape
ethnoscapes
ethnoscience
ethnosciences
ethnoscientific
ethnoscientifically
ethnoscientist
ethnoscientists
ethnosectarian
ethnoses
etho-
ethoglucid
ethogram
ethograms

Literary usage of Ethnos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1890)
"Other terms; ethnos and ethnic; culture; civilization. Stadia of culture. IN the rapid survey contained in the previous lectures you have seen in how many ..."

2. The Principles of Sociology: An Analysis of the Phenomena of Association and by Franklin Henry Giddings (1896)
"A gentile folk or ethnos has come into existence. Its further development, if evolution be not arrested at this point, carries it into the new conditions of ..."

3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1849)
"New Morals then eat a crust of bread, which was all ethnos had for dinner ... ethnos complained wofully of being sadly imposed upon, but New Morals ..."

4. Preserving The Dnipro River: Harmony, History, and Rehabiliation by Vasyl Yakovych Shevchuk (2005)
"He places a significant emphasis on natural forces and their capacity to shape vital powers and the spiritual energy of various ethnos entities. ..."

5. Hellenic History by George Willis Botsford (1922)
"This institution is designated as an ethnos — essentially a community ... A large ethnos, like the Aetolian, comprised several sub-ethne which we may ..."

6. Discussions in History and Theology by George Park Fisher (1880)
"J\ow John uses the word ethnos in only two passages—in xi. ... In any event, it would be natural for John to use the term ethnos, writing, as he was, ..."

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