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
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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"
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Ethnic as an adjective:
Belonging to a foreign culture.
Examples:
"I like to eat ethnic food"
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Ethnic as an adjective:
Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
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Ethnic as an adjective (historical):
Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.
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Ethnic as a noun:
An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
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Ethnic as a noun:
An ethnic minority.
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Ethnic as a noun (archaic):
A heathen, a pagan.
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Ethnic as a noun:
(in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
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Gentile as an adjective:
Non-Jewish.
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Gentile as an adjective:
Heathen, pagan.
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Gentile as an adjective:
Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.
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Gentile as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
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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.
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Gentile as a noun:
A non-Jewish person.
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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.