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Guatemalan

Guatemalan

24 2.9
From Guatemala or connected with its people
  • adjective
  • /ˌɡwɑːtəˈmɑːlən/
translation icon : guatemalteco
  • Sergeant Guillermo Longoria, a former member of the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army, had the job of handling complaints.
  • Guatemalan government
  • Guatemalan Church
  • Guatemalan highlands

Trump will put the tariff on against the Guatemalan goods.

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Examples

  • Students are asked to compare information from published resources about the Guatemalan education system with their experiences while in the country.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Why is Manuel the Guatemalan gardener shirtless?

  • You had the army, which is the Guatemalan government army.

  • Because I saw a Guatemalan flag.

  • You look like a Guatemalan tourist.

  • Precious and Edward have a Guatemalan woman.

  • Nineteen twenty-one became the greatest year in Guatemalan sports history.

    Academic text (1994)
  • To what extent does the falling Maya percentage objectively reflect the "success" of Guatemalan social integration?

    Academic text (1996)
  • Traditional historical accounts of Guatemalan church-state relations have been overly simplistic.

    Academic text (1994)
  • She learned how to cook traditional dishes from a Guatemalan family during her trip to Guatemala.

Synonyms

Central American
vsGuatemalan
9 2.6

From Central America or about its people and languages

is specific to one country's people not the wider region

Surface Forms

Guatemalan positive

Morphology

Guatemalan = Guatemala (transparent) = Guatemala + an

The adjective is a regular demonym/adjectival formation from the country name 'Guatemala' using the common suffix '-an'.

Etymology

Guatemalan comes from the country name Guatemala, which itself comes from a native word meaning 'place of many trees'. So Guatemalan describes something that is from or about that country.