The difference between Ethnic and Gentile

When used as nouns, ethnic means an ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community, whereas gentile means a non-jewish person.

When used as adjectives, ethnic means of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins, whereas gentile means non-jewish.


check bellow for the other definitions of Ethnic and Gentile

  1. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.

    Examples:

    "There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands"

  2. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Belonging to a foreign culture.

    Examples:

    "I like to eat ethnic food"

  3. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

  4. Ethnic as an adjective (historical):

    Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.

  1. Ethnic as a noun:

    An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

  2. Ethnic as a noun:

    An ethnic minority.

  3. Ethnic as a noun (archaic):

    A heathen, a pagan.

  4. Ethnic as a noun:

    (in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city

  1. Gentile as an adjective:

    Non-Jewish.

  2. Gentile as an adjective:

    Heathen, pagan.

  3. Gentile as an adjective:

    Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.

  4. Gentile as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.

  5. Gentile as an adjective (grammar):

    Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.

  1. Gentile as a noun:

    A non-Jewish person.

  2. Gentile as a noun (grammar):

    A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

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