Angolan
- proper noun
- /æŋˈɡoʊlən/
- Some Angolans grumble that Chinese construction companies, in particular, import cheap labor and deprive local people of jobs.
Examples
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The legislation stipulates that all funds must be used for non-partisan activities where all Angolans involved in the process have access to the programs.
Academic text (1992) -
But Angolans used these clubs and venues to meet their own entertainment needs and thereby made them politically meaningful.
Academic text (2004) -
There have been 1.5 million Angolans displaced by war.
Academic text (1990) -
Change is coming, many Angolans agree, but the full impact won't be felt for another 5 or 10 years.
Blog text (8) -
Few resources and little government effort have been given to protecting and promoting the rights of Angolans, and their situation continues to deteriorate.
Academic text (1990) -
Twenty-three Angolans produced a sense of nation through music and the music scene, but they did so in gendered terms.
Academic text (2004) -
"We Angolans tend to understand this, but communicating it to a foreign investor is more challenging," de Almeida said.
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The reforms instituted in September 1961 abolished the indigenato system (thereby making all Angolans Portuguese citizens), forced labor, and illegal land expropriation.
Academic text (2004) -
Regional economic cooperation was based on concrete political alliances, with Angolans, Namibians, Tanzanians, Mozambicans, and Zimbabweans dying together to check apartheid destabilization.
Academic text (1992) -
There have been 1.5 million Angolans displaced by war.
Synonyms
A person from the continent of Africa
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Angolan comes from the country name Angola, which comes from a local word 'ngola' meaning 'king'. The suffix -an works like in American or Italian, so Angolan means someone from Angola or of Angolan descent.