Natalianadj.n.
/nəˈtalɪən/, /nəˈtɑːlɪən/, U.S. /nəˈtɑlj(ə)n/, /nəˈtɑliən/ A. adj.
Of, belonging to, or relating to Natal, formerly a colony, South African province, and, since 1994, a part of the province of KwaZulu-Natal, located on the east coast of South Africa. Now rare.The attributive use of Natal n.2 has largely replaced Natalian in this sense.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [adjective] > Southern Africa > South Africa > parts of
Caffrariana1828
Ciskeian1848
Natalian1848
Transkeian1849
Transvaalian1888
1848 Times 20 June 5/3 The Australian and Natalian colonies concur in demanding an influx of labour.
1867 R. J. Mann in Intellectual Observer X. 186 In the year 1842,..the Dutchmen within the Natalian territory became subjects of the British Crown.
1872 Ladies' Repository Mar. 183/2 The little blue buck is the smallest of the Natalian antelopes, weighing no more than an English hare.
1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 10 Seldom do suns such striking talent show As when they set Natalian woods aglow.
1950 H. Gibbs Twilight 114 Back in the comparatively quiet years of the 1920's..the Government spent £25,000 on educating Natalian Indians.
1994 J. O. Gump Dust Rose like Smoke 10 A Zulu informant..told the Natalian magistrate..of a great umkhosi at Mgungundhlovu.
2001 M. M. Smith Old South i. ii. 64 It seems that antebellum planters were more successful than British, Australian, and Natalian nineteenth-century capitalists in achieving a modern clock consciousness in a rural environment.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of Natal, or (now) of KwaZulu-Natal.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions
Angolan1600
Angola1653
Malay1765
South African1806
Ngwaketsea1832
bushboya1834
Kapenaar1834
Transkeian1847
bosch-man1849
Natalian1850
burgher1879
Transvaaler1887
veldman1895
Rhodesian1897
Vaalpens1899
backvelder1911
plattelander1934
southwester1960
Zimbabwean1961
Zambian1963
Botswanian1966
Botswanan1967
Namibian1968
Ciskeian1973
Sowetan1974
1850 J. S. Christopher Natal Pref. 11 When the Natalians number four millions of people, they will do more trade with England than all Europe together.
1864 ‘A Lady’ Let. 2 June in Life at Natal (1972) i. 16 Natalians are very proud of the fact that their railway was the first opened in South Africa.
1878 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day xi. 216 I was a raw emigrant, and still what Natalians call a ‘Jimmy’.
1934 A. J. Barnouw Lang. & Race Problems 14 I heard Natalians deny that this document, in declaring Afrikaans to be the official equal of English, made it obligatory for every State official to be versed in either language.
1973 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 18 Feb. 2 An independent Natal has long been the dream of many White Natalians.
1994 Flying Springbok (Johannesburg) Dec. 44 Twenty-five years ago, it was a young Natalian called Barry Richards who took the world by storm, cracking two centuries in the four-test series.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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