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niger river |
niger-congo |
niger-kordofanian |
niger-kordofanian language |
nigeria |
nigerian
| nigerian capital
| nigerian monetary unit
| nigerien
| nigga
| niggard
nigerian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nigerian has 1 sense
- nigerian(n = noun.person) Array - a native or inhabitant of Nigeria; Array is a member of federal republic of nigeria, nigeria
is a kind of african
has particulars: hausa, haussa, edo, igbo, yoruba
Derived forms adjective nigerian2, adjective nigerian1
Adjective nigerian has 2 senses
- nigerian(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to Nigeria; "the Nigerian capital used to be Lagos" Derived forms noun niger2, noun nigerian1
- nigerian(a = adj.pert) nigerien - of or relating to the people of Nigeria; "a Nigerian novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature this year" Derived forms noun niger2, noun nigerian1
CIDE DICTIONARY
nigerian, prop. n.
A native or inhabitant of Nigeria. [WordNet 1.5]
nigerian, prop. adj.
- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country Nigeria; as, The Nigerian capital used to be
Lagos . [WordNet 1.5] - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the inhabitants of Nigeria; as, A Nigerian novelist won the Noble Prize for literature this year. [WordNet 1.5]
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