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Angolan

Angolan

1 1.8
A person whose family comes from Angola
  • proper noun
  • /æŋˈɡoʊlən/
: angoleño
  • Some Angolans grumble that Chinese construction companies, in particular, import cheap labor and deprive local people of jobs.

Examples

  • 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.

    Academic text (2010)
  • 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

African
vsAngolan
46 1.0

A person from the continent of Africa

is the more specific national identity from a single country within that continent

Surface Forms

Angolan main

Morphology

Angolan = Angola (transparent) = Angola + an

The demonym is formed by the regular suffix '-an' attached to 'Angola', so the sense 'person from Angola' is predictable.

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.