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Ethiopian

[ ee-thee-oh-pee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Ethiopia or to its inhabitants.
  2. belonging to the part of Africa south of the equator.
  3. Zoogeography. belonging to a geographical division comprising Africa south of the tropic of Cancer, the southern part of Arabia, and Madagascar.
  4. Archaic. Black African.


noun

  1. a native of Ethiopia.
  2. a member of any of various supposedly dark-skinned peoples regarded by the ancients as coming from a country lying south of Egypt.
  3. Archaic. a Black African.

Ethiopian

/ ˌːθɪˈəʊɪə /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Ethiopia, its people, or any of their languages
  2. of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of Africa south of the Sahara
  3. obsolete.
    anthropol of or belonging to a postulated racial group characterized by dark skin, an oval elongated face, and thin lips, living chiefly in Africa south of the Sahara
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia
  2. any of the languages of Ethiopia, esp Amharic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an archaic word for Black
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·پ-·ٳ··辱· adjective noun
  • -·ٳ··辱· adjective noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Ethiopian1

First recorded in 1545–55; Ethiopi(a) + -an
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Ms Bethel agrees that the concept of women openly competing for a man clashes with Ethiopian traditions, but insists that the show is more than its central premise.

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The arrests follow reports that the White Army militia had seized a strategic town in Upper Nile state close to the Ethiopian border, after clashes with government troops.

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He described his "Ethiopian bird pipe" as having two mouthpieces, one of which would produce a sound that would make a bird raise one leg, and the other mouthpiece the other leg.

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The Ethiopian, who calls himself Mike, said he is being held with 450 others in a building inside Myanmar, along the country's border with Thailand.

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"Outside of the obvious Ethiopian diaspora connection, the music was already insane," Nathan said.

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