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NIGERIAN

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 I. (noun) 

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)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the people of Nigeria

Example:

a Nigerian novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature this year

Synonyms:

Nigerian; Nigerien

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to Nigeria

Example:

the Nigerian capital used to be Lagos

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

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)

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