polyethnic

[ pol-ee-eth-nik ]

adjective

1. inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of polyethnic¹

First recorded in 1885–90; poly- + ethnic

Example Sentences

“There is no city like New York,” he said, and “there is no better message than the cultural message that is sent over by the kind of polyglot, polyethnic city that we are.”

From Seattle Times

While the scope of the six projects is small, leaders of the Polyethnic initiative hope to see it replicated in other U.S. cities to continue broadening the diversity of patients represented in genetic databases.

From New York Times

The Genome Center’s two-year-old initiative, called Polyethnic-1000, is aimed at closing the knowledge gap that exists largely because decades of genetic studies focused mainly on white patient populations.

From New York Times

Whitman invented a poetry specific to this language and open to the kinds of experience, peculiar to democracy in a polyethnic society on a vast continent, that might otherwise be mute.

From The New Yorker

Marsh has thus been turned into a foreign correspondent, reporting on how medicine is practiced in this poor, polyethnic country, recently ravaged by civil war.

From New York Times