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multiethnic

a. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of several ethnic groups. alt. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of several ethnic groups. n. A member of more than one ethnic group.

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multiethnic

adj. involving several ethnic groups [syn: multi-ethnic]

Usage examples of "multiethnic".

The model that Washington should use as it studies the future of the Central Asia region, as well as that of the emerging new Middle East, is not that of a new Moslem empire but that of a multinational and multiethnic mosaic, in which political, military, and economic cooperation will coexist with chaotic ethnic and religious rivalries, not necessarily between Christians and Moslems and certainly not as a result of religious subversion by one player, such as Iran.

Like the former Yugoslavia, Iraq was a multiethnic state that had been held together by a dictator.

American experiment, a real-world demonstration that nations, even multicultural and multiethnic nations, could survive and prosper with these freedoms reasonably intact.

That was well before the multiethnic days such as now when Christians scarcely get mentioned in public.

Settlement Ministry, whose officers adhered rigidly to the approved multiethnic amalgamation policy.

She shoved her shopping cart with the jammed back wheel up one side and down the other twice before admitting the microwavable, multiethnic cuisine that had anchored her daily caloric intake for a quarter century was also a part of her former life.

Now dubbed Uptown on the Hill, the compact urban neighborhood just northeast of downtown was an interesting multiethnic place with a range of residents who varied widely in financial wherewithal.

In contrast to Westfield, the parking lot here was clean, and the multiethnic people walking from their luxury cars and SUVs to the mall might as well have had dollar signs stamped right on their foreheads.

I had arrived on the scene at exactly the right moment in time, as a new wave of multiethnic models started to shake things up.

The Soviet ambition was also that of a civilizational empire: to create a new kind of civilized man, multiethnic in origin but speaking one language and bound by one culture, which in turn would spread beyond the borders of the Soviet Union to influence all mankind.

Zionism, great Zionist leaders and thinkers such as Nahum Goldmann originally dreamed that Israel, like other civilized states, would also be anchored in international institutions and might even form part of a multiethnic federation with the Arab states of the Middle East, thereby resolving the dilemma in which Jewish diaspora liberalism found itself.

Most of the professors were gone, and the boom boxes in various labs were cranked up, filling the corridor with a cacophony of sound--mostly American pop music, but also multiethnic stuff in a variety of languages.

Now we know the doohickey is for real, the big Kahuna who created it is alive and kicking, and the gang that has them and the daughter is both multinational and multiethnic.