The difference between Ethnic and Pagan

When used as nouns, ethnic means an ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community, whereas pagan means a person not adhering to an abrahamist religion.

When used as adjectives, ethnic means of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins, whereas pagan means relating to, characteristic of or adhering to non-abrahamist religions (i.e. not christianity, judaism, or islam), especially earlier polytheism.


check bellow for the other definitions of Ethnic and Pagan

  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. Pagan as an adjective:

    Relating to, characteristic of or adhering to non-Abrahamist religions (i.e. not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam), especially earlier polytheism.

    Examples:

    "Many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints."

  2. Pagan as an adjective (by extension, pejorative):

    Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.

  1. Pagan as a noun:

    A person not adhering to an Abrahamist religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.

    Examples:

    "This community has a surprising number of pagans."

  2. Pagan as a noun (by extension, pejorative):

    An uncivilized or unsocialized person.

  3. Pagan as a noun (by extension, pejorative):

    An unruly, badly educated child.