New Zealander
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- proper noun
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neozelandés
- New Zealander MacManus founded the site as ReadWriteWeb in 2003 and grew his blog about the changing Internet into an international team of journalists.
- New Zealander Peter Jackson
- Australians, and New Zealanders
So we had to replace people and we had Ben Goodyer, New Zealander, retired at Netscape and he stepped in to be the Firefox lead.
- So we had to replace people and we had Ben Goodyer, New Zealander, retired at Netscape and he stepped in to be the Firefox lead.
Examples
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New Zealander Bryan Leland of the International Climate Science Coalition warned participants that all the UN-promoted discussions of "carbon trading" should be viewed with suspicion.
Blog text (29) -
I am a New Zealander living in America.
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Some may know that Professor McNaughton is a New Zealander, recently retired from the University of Auckland.
Academic text (1993) -
John Stringer is a New Zealander (Christchurch) in his 40s, married to an American from Taco Bell; they have five adult children in three different countries.
Blog text (14) -
Hilary speaks with a distinct accent that makes her sound like a New Zealander.
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As a proud New Zealander, James enjoys sharing local customs with visitors.
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The New Zealander chef prepared a traditional meal using fresh, local ingredients.
Synonyms
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5.9
A person from New Zealand
Surface Forms
Morphology
New + Zealander
The meaning 'a person from New Zealand' is directly compositional: it denotes the demonym formed from the place name New Zealand (place name + agentive suffix -er). This is a regular, predictable pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent place name and the demonym-formation logic will readily understand it.
Etymology
New Zealander as a name comes from the country name New Zealand, which explorers called after the Dutch region 'Zeeland', and the name grew to mean a person connected to that country. So a New Zealander is 'someone who lives in or comes from New Zealand'.