VENEZUELAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Venezuelan mean? 

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

1. a native or inhabitant of Venezuela

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

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENEZUELAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Venezuela

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

South American (a native or inhabitant of South America)

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

Republic of Venezuela; Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)

Derivation:

Venezuelan (of or relating to or characteristic of Venezuela or its people)

• VENEZUELAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Venezuela or its people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Venezuelan oil

Pertainym:

Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)

Derivation:

Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)

Venezuelan (a native or inhabitant of Venezuela)

 Context examples 

I’m not very good at telling a story, Dr. Watson, but it is like this with me: I used to have a billet at Coxon & Woodhouse, of Drapers’ Gardens, but they were let in early in the spring through the Venezuelan loan, as no doubt you remember, and came a nasty cropper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The alphaviral replicon of this vaccine is an attenuated strain of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) in which 3 of the 7 viral genes were substituted with a truncated HER2 gene to create a self-amplifying replicon RNA.

(HER2 ECD+TM Virus-like Replicon Particles Vaccine AVX901, NCI Thesaurus)