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NIGERIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nigerian mean?
• NIGERIAN (noun)
The noun NIGERIAN has 1 sense:
1. a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
Familiarity information: NIGERIAN used as a noun is very rare.
• NIGERIAN (adjective)
The adjective NIGERIAN has 2 senses:
1. of or relating to Nigeria
2. of or relating to the people of Nigeria
Familiarity information: NIGERIAN used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Nigeria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Nigerian" is a kind of...):
African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Nigerian"):
Hausa; Haussa (a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria)
Edo (a member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria)
Igbo (a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria)
Yoruba (a member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria)
Holonyms ("Nigerian" is a member of...):
Federal Republic of Nigeria; Nigeria (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country)
Derivation:
Nigerian (of or relating to the people of Nigeria)
Nigerian (of or relating to Nigeria)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to Nigeria
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
the Nigerian capital used to be Lagos
Pertainym:
Nigeria (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country)
Derivation:
Niger (a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert)
Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the people of Nigeria
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
Nigerian; Nigerien
Context example:
a Nigerian novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature this year
Pertainym:
Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)
Derivation:
Niger (a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert)
Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)
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