"ethnographize" meaning in English

See ethnographize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: ethnographizes [present, singular, third-person], ethnographizing [participle, present], ethnographized [participle, past], ethnographized [past], ethnographise [alternative, Commonwealth]
Etymology: From ethnography + -ize. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|ethnography|-ize}} ethnography + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} ethnographize (third-person singular simple present ethnographizes, present participle ethnographizing, simple past and past participle ethnographized)
  1. (anthropology, ambitransitive) To carry out ethnography. Tags: ambitransitive Derived forms: ethnographization Translations (do ethnography): 民族誌化 /民族志化 (man⁴ zuk⁶ zi³ faa³) (Chinese Cantonese), 民族誌化 /民族志化 (mínzúzhìhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), ηθογραφώ (ithografó) (Greek)

Inflected forms

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