Salvadoran
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3.3
- noun
- /ˌsælvəˈdɔrən/
:
salvadoreño
- The study found that, on average, Salvadorans receive about $200 per month from relatives living abroad.
- thousands of Salvadorans
- many Salvadorans
- poor Salvadorans
Examples
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Not all Salvadorans are happy with Tazumal's new look.
Academic text (2006) -
Not surprisingly, the armed conflict during the 1980s only exacerbated the increasingly precarious conditions of the majority of Salvadorans.
Academic text (1996) -
Yes, I was married by then, four years married to a gentle Salvadoran.
Fiction book (1994) -
The only responsible ones will be Salvadorans, not the United States.
Academic text (2012) -
At the same time, the study found that Salvadorans, unlike most other Latin Americans, are comfortable using the banking system.
Academic text (2004) -
The first thing Salvadorans do if they're able to save a little extra money is to start a small business.
Academic text (1996) -
Forty-four percent of Salvadorans report feeling either somewhat or very unsafe in their own neighborhood.
Academic text (2012) -
In addition to increasing rural-urban migration, more and more Salvadorans crossed into Honduras in search of land.
Academic text (1996) -
Operation Walk Utah was able to provide free surgeries to 61 Salvadorans, eclipsing its goal of 50 this year.
Blog text (22) -
Many Salvadorans in the United States work multiple jobs to support their families back home.
Synonyms
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3.9
A person born in or living in El Salvador
A person from El Salvador
Compounds
- Archaic
A former unit of money in El Salvador worth 100 cents used before the US dollar
Surface Forms
Morphology
Salvadoran = El Salvador (transparent) = El Salvador + an
Formed by the productive demonym/adjectival suffix '-an' added to the country name 'El Salvador', so the meaning 'person or relating to El Salvador' is directly derivable.
Etymology
Salvadoran comes from the country name El Salvador, which in Spanish means 'the savior' and is from the same root as English words like save and salvation. So a Salvadoran is a person 'from El Salvador'.