Bahamian
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- noun
- /bəˈheɪmiən/
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bahameño
- His deputy, William Nottage, who appeared on another TV program, did not seem to be in step with the Chairman's radical, 'vicked', heartless, unconscionable position against Bahamians.
Examples
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The Atwell family being Bahamians, Winky didn't care much for that "conch" talk, but what he said was, "That's just fine, Ed, not one thing wrong with it."
Fiction book (1990) -
Spanish settlers came first in the nineteenth century, and then the Bahamians, Seminole Indians, and runaway slaves.
Academic text (2006) -
So he was another Bahamian billionaire and in charge of a of a massive company.
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"I thought Grammy told me she was Bahamian."
Fiction book (1994) -
Stop giving the Bahamians all this stress!
Blog text (11) -
Bahamians do not forget, and if they do, we at BP will remind them.
Blog text (18) -
BP has done an undercover investigation, and we discovered that while Bahamians are being tossed out of the market, foreign nationals are not.
Blog text (11) -
Young Lynden Pindling worked with Bahamians and built two straw markets for vendors.
Blog text (11) -
The scandal dragged across two governments and, as hopelessness and despair set in, Foulkes and his partner vanished like Houdini and left young Bahamians flat broke.
Blog text (18) -
The Bahamians celebrated their independence with a colorful parade.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bahamian = Bahamas (transparent) = Bahama + ian
Formed with the common demonymic suffix '-ian' from the country name; the meaning 'a person from the Bahamas' is directly predictable.
Etymology
Bahamian comes from the island name Bahamas, a name that probably comes from Spanish baja mar, meaning 'shallow sea' and helping you imagine the flat, clear waters around the islands. With the ending -ian meaning 'from' or 'belonging to', Bahamian names a person who is 'from the Bahamas'.