"polyethnic" meaning in English

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      "form": "more polyethnic",
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          "ref": "1999, Gilles Paquet, Governance Through Social Learning, page 29:",
          "text": "In the last 20 years, the sharp increase in immigration has brought \"new faces in the crowd\" and a much more polyethnic and multicultural country.",
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          "ref": "2004, Stephen May, “Chapter 12: Accommodating Multiculturalism and Biculturalism: Implications for language policy”, in Paul Spoonley, David George Pearson, editors, Tangata Tangata: The Changing Ethnic Contours of New Zealand, page 252:",
          "text": "In some European states, however, the reverse applies and the rights of national minorities (in Belgium and Switzerland, for example) have long been recognised but an accommodation of immigrants and a more polyethnic society has been far less forthcoming.",
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          "ref": "2015, Stephen K. Sanderson, Modern Societies: A Comparative Perspective, page 191:",
          "text": "And thus it is a very good bet that those societies that are becoming more and more polyethnic will experience increasing ethnic conflict. In fact, it is happening already.",
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        "That contains people who together represent multiple ethnicities, especially such that they coexist and interact harmoniously."
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        "(of a group or society) That contains people who together represent multiple ethnicities, especially such that they coexist and interact harmoniously."
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        "(of a person) Who identifies as being of multiple ethnicities."
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