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Trinidadian, a. and n.|trɪnɪˈdædɪən, -ˈdeɪdɪən|
[f. Trinidad + -ian; see Trinidado.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Trinidad.
1910L. O. Inniss (title) Trinidad and Trinidadians. 1948Trinidad Guardian 24 June 1/2 (heading) Trinidadian faces fraud indictment. 1957[see the adj. below]. 1966Listener 23 June 923/3 White men in Trinidad had only taught the Trinidadians how to play cricket because there were not enough of their own sort to make a team. 1978‘A. York’ Tallant for Disaster ii. 25 A Trinidadian by birth, he was tall and thin.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Trinidad or its inhabitants.
1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 20 This appeal for Trinidadian autarchy was warmly applauded. 1957Amer. Anthropologist LIX. 817 Trinidad's social structure..shows these racial and national groups to be arranged in a hierarchy by Trinidadians... A consensus of Trinidadian opinion might arrange these groups as follows. 1971Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Sept. (Guyana Suppl.) p. iii/1 A Trinidadian sportsman has also been ordered to serve two six-month jail sentences. 1980Amer. Speech LV. 31 Examples are Barbadian../basabasa/ ‘fussy’ and /kɔŋki/ ‘boiled corn pudding’, both also Trinidadian and Guyanese. |