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10 Language-to-English DictionariesEthnostate
/ˈɛθ.nəʊˌsteɪt/Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A sovereign political state of which citizenship is restricted to members of a specific racial or ethnic group.
"The radical political group advocated for the establishment of a homogeneous ethnostate." - 2
A nation-state in which citizenship and national identity are explicitly bound to a dominant ethnic heritage.
"Historians analyzed how several 20th-century regimes attempted to engineer an ethnostate through demographic displacement."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
A modern political neologism formed in the late 20th century by combining the combining form 'ethno-' (derived from the Greek 'ethnos', meaning nation or people) with the English word 'state'. Originally emerging within political science and sociological discourse to describe theoretical or historical political entities defined by a single shared ethnicity, the term has increasingly been adopted by both separatist movements and nationalist political groups.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Ethnostate" is said worldwide
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ethno-État
Transliteration: ɛtno-etat
"Le concept d'ethno-État est rejeté par la plupart des démocraties modernes."
Ethnostaat
Transliteration: ˈɛtnoˌstaːt
"Die Idee eines Ethnostaates steht im Widerspruch zu pluralistischen Gesellschaften."
etnostato
Transliteration: ɛtnoˈstato
"La creazione di un etnostato comporta divisioni sociali estreme."
etnoestado
Transliteration: etnoesˈtaðo
"Los movimientos extremistas promovieron la formación de un etnoestado."
etnoestado
Transliteration: ˌɛtnowsiˈtadu
"O conceito de etnoestado é incompatível com os direitos humanos universais."
जातीय राष्ट्र
Transliteration: jatiya rashtra
"एक जातीय राष्ट्र का विचार विभाजनकारी होता है।"
单一民族国家
Transliteration: dānyī mínzú guójiā
"建立单一民族国家的企图会导致严重的冲突。"
민족국가
Transliteration: minjok-gukga
"순수한 민족국가를 주장하는 것은 현대 사회에서 위험합니다."
民族国家
Transliteration: minzoku kokka
"排他的な民族国家の樹立は国際社会で非難されます。"
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