Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Ethiopia or its peoples or cultures.
- adjective Of or relating to the Afrotropical biogeographic region.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia.
- noun A person of Ethiopian ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geography, relating to Ethiopia or to its inhabitants.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Ethiopia, an ancient region of eastern Africa, south of Egypt, including modern Abyssinia.
- noun In an extended sense, an African in general; a negro. See
Ethiop , 2. - noun Also
Æthiopian . - In anthropology, relating to the negroid race which inhabits Africa (Blumenbach).
- In zoögeog., pertaining or belonging to the region constituted by the whole of Africa and Arabia south of the tropic of Cancer, together with Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon, Rodriguez, and the Seychelles.
- noun In anthropology, one of the Ethiopian race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person from
Ethiopia or of Ethiopian descent. - adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Ethiopia or its people or languages
- noun a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia
Etymologies
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Examples
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MICHA ODENHEIMER, ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRATION ASSOCIATION: The African, the Ethiopian in Israel is cool.
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Somalia's top exiled Islamist leader on Wednesday pledged his camp's commitment to a new peace drive but warned the movement would keep up its struggle against what it calls Ethiopian occupation.
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This term Ethiopian comprehended also the Negroes; but the Egyptians, who were in immediate contact with both, had a special name for the Negroes, calling them nahasi.
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An al-Shabab spokesman said the group carried out a successful martyrdom operation against what it called "Ethiopian invaders" in the western Somali town of Beledweyne.
The Seattle Times 2012
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An al-Shabab spokesman said the group carried out a successful martyrdom operation against what it called "Ethiopian invaders" in the western Somali town of Beledweyne.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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An al-Shabab spokesman said the group carried out a successful martyrdom operation against what it called "Ethiopian invaders" in the western Somali town of Beledweyne.
www.startribune.com 2012
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DC food does suck – Ethiopian is dog food with a boiled egg in it.
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There has been very little change in Ethiopian civil society since then (there were elections but the results were faked, there was a free press but it has been muzzled, there is an opposition but they got beaten up and marginalized).
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If Angelina doesn't gain some weight quickly, some Ethiopian is going to adopt her.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Although Margaret Doody's recent book, The True Story of the Novel, has returned the ancient Greek romances to contemporary discussions of the history of the novel, The Ethiopian is familiar to few readers today.
The Angry Owner 1999
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