"ethnosuicide" meaning in All languages combined

See ethnosuicide on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ethnosuicides [plural]
Etymology: From ethno- + suicide. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|ethno|suicide}} ethno- + suicide Head templates: {{en-noun}} ethnosuicide (plural ethnosuicides)
  1. The destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity. Synonyms: race suicide
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ethno",
        "3": "suicide"
      },
      "expansion": "ethno- + suicide",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ethno- + suicide.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ethnosuicides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ethnosuicide (plural ethnosuicides)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with ethno-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964, L. Bryce Boyer, “Folk Psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation”, in Ari Kiev, editor, Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, pages 408-409:",
          "text": "R. M. Boyer has postulated that a societal safeguard against ethnosuicide is to be found in the widespread dependent tendencies combined with retention of individual rights of decision-making.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:",
          "text": "According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, José Rabasa, chapter 1, in Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World, page 13:",
          "text": "The call to commit ethnosuicide is perplexing, for it led the Nahuas to wonder why they were asked to destroy their culture and selves [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity."
      ],
      "id": "en-ethnosuicide-en-noun-8nIUXqrB",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "race suicide"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ethnosuicide"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ethno",
        "3": "suicide"
      },
      "expansion": "ethno- + suicide",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ethno- + suicide.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ethnosuicides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ethnosuicide (plural ethnosuicides)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with ethno-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964, L. Bryce Boyer, “Folk Psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation”, in Ari Kiev, editor, Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, pages 408-409:",
          "text": "R. M. Boyer has postulated that a societal safeguard against ethnosuicide is to be found in the widespread dependent tendencies combined with retention of individual rights of decision-making.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:",
          "text": "According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, José Rabasa, chapter 1, in Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World, page 13:",
          "text": "The call to commit ethnosuicide is perplexing, for it led the Nahuas to wonder why they were asked to destroy their culture and selves [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "race suicide"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ethnosuicide"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ethnosuicide meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.