PERUVIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Peruvian mean? 

• PERUVIAN (noun)
  The noun PERUVIAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Peru

  Familiarity information: PERUVIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• PERUVIAN (adjective)
  The adjective PERUVIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people

  Familiarity information: PERUVIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERUVIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Peru

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Peruvian" is a kind of...):

South American (a native or inhabitant of South America)

Holonyms ("Peruvian" is a member of...):

Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)

Derivation:

Peruvian (of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people)

• PERUVIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Peruvian artifacts

Pertainym:

Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)

Derivation:

Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)

Peruvian (a native or inhabitant of Peru)

 Context examples 

That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Located in the Peruvian Andes, Ubinas has shown signs of an impending eruption since the mid-2013, highlighted by the appearance of a fresh lava dome in March 2014.

(Fresh lava arrives at Ubinas volcano, NASA)

Well, said she, I am not in voice, and it is ill to play in a little room with but two to listen, but you must conceive me to be the Queen of the Peruvians, who is exhorting her countrymen to rise up against the Spaniards, who are oppressing them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No stream could be more convenient for navigation, since the prevailing wind is south-east, and sailing boats may make a continuous progress to the Peruvian frontier, dropping down again with the current.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She carried herself in the most stately fashion, so that as I looked at her majestic entrance, and at the pose which she struck as she glanced at my father, I was reminded of the Queen of the Peruvians as, in the person of Miss Polly Hinton, she incited Boy Jim and myself to insurrection.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)