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New Zealander

New Zealander

1 1.8
A person who lives in New Zealand
  • proper noun
: 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.

Examples

  • 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.

    Blog text (7)

  • 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.

  • As a proud New Zealander, James enjoys sharing local customs with visitors.

  • The New Zealander chef prepared a traditional meal using fresh, local ingredients.

Synonyms

Kiwi
vsNew Zealander
1 5.9

A person from New Zealand

has identical meaning and refers to the same group of people

Surface Forms

New Zealander main

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'.