Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Benin.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Benin.
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- noun A person from
Benin or of Beninese descent. - adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Benin, the Beninese people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Benin
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people
Etymologies
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Examples
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Earlier today, I spoke to two Beninese men I know here in Cotonou who happen to be from an adjacent village.
Boing Boing 2009
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QPR 0-2 Sunderland Sessegnon 53' The Beninese international races from the half-way line, rounds Paddy Kenny and scores!
Premier League clockwatch – as it happened | Paul Doyle 2011
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The four-time Grammy-nominated and 2008 Grammy-winning, much-celebrated singer, composer and performer began in the Beninese port village of Cotonou.
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The four-time Grammy-nominated and 2008 Grammy-winning, much-celebrated singer, composer and performer began in the Beninese port village of Cotonou.
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This new wave includes many more besides the remarkable Dambisa Moyo -- such as the Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda and two extraordinary colleagues of mine at NYU: the Ghanaian economist Yaw Nyarko and the Beninese political scientist Leonard Wantchekon.
William Easterly: Sachs Ironies: Why Critics are Better for Foreign Aid than Apologists 2009
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The four-time Grammy-nominated and 2008 Grammy-winning, much-celebrated singer, composer and performer began in the Beninese port village of Cotonou.
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In Johannesburg, the celebrated Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo also called for reducing the stigma still attached to the disease.
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Bush was asked by a Beninese reporter whether his visit was "a stunt."
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And he's played with a who's-who of big jazz names, not to mention the fantastic African pop star Angelique Kidjo, a fellow Beninese New Yorker.
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France, he said, had more Beninese doctors than Benin itself.
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