Guatemalan
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2.9
- noun
- /ˌɡwɑːtəˈmɑːlən/
:
guatemalteco
- In the market, she met several Guatemalans who sold handmade crafts and traditional foods.
- Guatemalans and Salvadorans
- Guatemalans from Central America
- urban Guatemalans
So Guatemalans, Panamanians, Mexicans, things like that.
- So Guatemalans, Panamanians, Mexicans, things like that.
Examples
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Somewhat surprisingly, these perceptions and experiences of political violence had little effect on Guatemalans' political participation and democratic norms.
Academic text (2000) -
Indeed, on the latter index, Guatemalans scored slightly in the antidemocratic end of the scale.
Academic text (2000) -
I see a Guatemalan who joined the military to get a green card.
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Although Guatemalans had elected a civilian president, the military remained the most significant actor in politics.
Academic text (2001) -
Recall that the large majority of Guatemalans composed the lower classes.
Academic text (1994) -
The daily lives of most Guatemalans will not improve directly as a result of the accords.
Academic text (2000) -
In 2001, I was invited to participate in a series of personal interviews with native Guatemalans regarding their experiences.
Academic text (2005) -
Despite this, urban Guatemalans' anticommunist opinions were only average in the regional context.
Academic text (2000) -
Pilin Mctel, a Guatemalan, has picked cherry tomatoes near Immokalee for the past four years.
Academic text (1993) -
Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans made up 80 percent of the workforce in Siler City's two poultry plants.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
4
2.0
A person from Central America
A friendly informal name for a person from Guatemala
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Guatemalan originally names a person from Guatemala, and the country name comes from a native word meaning 'place of many trees'. So a Guatemalan is someone born in or from that land.