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单词 salvadorean
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Salvadoreanadj.n.

/salvəˈdɔːrɪən/
Forms: Also Salvadoran, Salvadorian.
Etymology: < El Salvador (see below + -an suffix.
A. adj.
Of or pertaining to El Salvador, a republic in Central America.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [adjective] > Central America > specific countries > El Salvador
Salvadorean1886
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 268/2 The tree from which it [sc. Balsam of Peru] is obtained grows naturally nowhere else in the world except in a limited part of the Salvadorian seaboard known as the Balsam coast.
1887 U.S. Consular Rep. XXIII. No. 82. 292 However great the advantage given to the Salvadorean debtor by English commercial codes,..American is worth 3 per cent. more than English gold.
1941 C. M. Wilson Central Amer. (1942) iii. 52 The distinctly Salvadoran Feast of the Holy Savior.
1947 M. Lowry Let. Nov. (1967) 159 Mlle. Zaza, wife of Salvadorean new passenger.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of El Salvador.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of Central America > [noun] > El Salvador
Salvadorean1895
1895 Handbk. Salvador (Bull. Bureau Amer. Republics No. 58) 79 Salvadorians are such either by birth or naturalization.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ in McClure's Mag. July 330/1 For a Salvadorian he was not such a calamitous little man.
1969 Guardian 19 July 8/2 The quarter of a million Salvadoreans in Honduras.
1979 Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 4/4 Another hostage, a Salvadorean who was the Israeli honorary consul.
1980 Daily Tel. 11 July 19/7 A Mexican and a Salvadoran have been charged..with illegally smuggling a group of aliens..into the United States.
1981 Times 24 Feb. 13/4 The victory of the Salvadorians is certain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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