Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A group of people who have a different ethnicity, religion, language or culture to that of the majority of people in the place where they live.
WordNet
n. a group that has different national or cultural traditions from the majority of the population
Usage examples of "ethnic minority".
Rhyme nodded to Deng, who told him about the killers and their suspicion that the men were from a Chinese ethnic minority group.
But that meant that the mayor's sole political support was drawn from an ethnic minority that grew more minor every day.
She only got promoted because she was from an ethnic minority at a time when the force needed a few higher-profile brown faces.
This patch of real estate had sinceinto the hands of the Dong, an ethnic minority tribe fromChina, driven out of their homeland by the civil war.
This patch of real estate had since passed into the hands of the Dong, an ethnic minority tribe from southwestern China, driven out of their homeland by the civil war.
He did point out that as ethnic minority men ran the sweat shops, ethnicity was a red herring, but she dismissed that one.
Why, by building a machine that could conquer and exploit, not just the odd ethnic minority here and there, but every human it encountered.
The determination to represent all the people, not just one ethnic minority?
For one thing, he wasn't Ukrainian, or a member of any other Soviet ethnic minority.
I mean, rounding up an ethnic minority, and sticking them down in some godforsaken hole, just so you’.
I mean, rounding up an ethnic minority, and sticking them down in some godforsaken hole, just so youll never have to think about them again.
The descendants of Kaeradearth are an ethnic minority, but an accepted one.