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Guatemalan

Guatemalan

24 2.9
From Guatemala or connected with its people
  • adjective
  • /ˌɡwɑːtəˈmɑːlən/
: 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
20 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.