Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Tunisia or Tunis or their inhabitants.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Tunisia or Tunis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Tunis, a regency and protectorate of France, in northern Africa, or to Tunis, its principal city.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of Tunis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person from Tunisia or of Tunisian descent.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Tunisia, the Tunisian people or the Tunisian language.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the city of Tunis or its residents
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Tunisia
  • adjective of or relating to Tunisia or its inhabitants

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Examples

  • DORA BOUCHOCHA, TUNISIAN FILM PRODUCER: The majority of Tunisian films were made after independence, and for those early filmmaker, the preoccupation was the colonial oppression, the war of independence, and then they moved on to the (inaudible), female emancipation and the advent of modernity (ph).

    CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2006 2006

  • Grandmother Renée, a beautiful Tunisian, is wife, muse, and model for Alina's painter grandfather, but she leaves him and flees to Nazi Germany.

    Casa Rossa: Summary and book reviews of Casa Rossa by Francesca Marciano. 2002

  • He was identified as a Tunisian working for the Paris-based Arab Committee for Human Rights.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2012

  • He was identified as a Tunisian working for the Paris-based Arab Committee for Human Rights.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

  • He was identified as a Tunisian who works for the Paris-based Arab Committee for Human Rights ACHR, although al-Jazeera said he was an Algerian.

    BBC News - Home 2012

  • On Saturday alone, Crowley informed his Twitter followers that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had called Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to urge speedy political and economic reforms as protests continued in the wake of a popular uprising that toppled the country's longtime autocratic president.

    U.S. Diplomacy Embracing Twitter Amid Global Crises AP 2011

  • On Saturday alone, Crowley informed his Twitter followers that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had called Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to urge speedy political and economic reforms as protests continued in the wake of a popular uprising that toppled the country's longtime autocratic president.

    U.S. Diplomacy Embracing Twitter Amid Global Crises AP 2011

  • On Saturday alone, Crowley informed his Twitter followers that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had called Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to urge speedy political and economic reforms as protests continued in the wake of a popular uprising that toppled the country's longtime autocratic president.

    U.S. Diplomacy Embracing Twitter Amid Global Crises AP 2011

  • The Tunisian is a revolutionary on Facebook, but when he is with the family of his wife or his fiancée he's with An-Nahda.

    Tunisian elections live blog 2011

  • On Saturday alone, Crowley informed his Twitter followers that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had called Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to urge speedy political and economic reforms as protests continued in the wake of a popular uprising that toppled the country's longtime autocratic president.

    U.S. Diplomacy Embracing Twitter Amid Global Crises AP 2011

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