New Zealander
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- noun
- /nuː ˈziːləndər/
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neozelandés
- In the past two years, a pair of native New Zealanders has signed contracts with MLB teams.
We have pop star and famous New Zealander Lord here tonight.
- We have pop star and famous New Zealander Lord here tonight.
Examples
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It's especially important for New Zealanders because it's our backyard; we have territorial rights to large parts of it.
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The first successful ascent of Mount Everest was achieved by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary.
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We have pop star and famous New Zealander Lord here tonight.
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A million New Zealanders watch you on TV.
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You see, I have totally fallen in love with this New Zealander.
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We later discovered they were made between the turn of the century and the late 1920s by an extraordinary New Zealander.
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The airline is run by a Canadian, with a couple of New Zealanders as pilots.
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Here, seen for the very first time, is the only motion picture film shot by a New Zealander at Gallipoli.
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But in New Zealand, because it was a New Zealander who had maybe achieved this groundbreaking idea, we would say, oh, it's pretty good.
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They are New Zealanders, part of our lost patrols.
Synonyms
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 noun comes from the country name New Zealand, named by early Dutch sailors after 'Zeeland' in the Netherlands, and the word came to mean a person from that place. So a New Zealander is 'a person from New Zealand'.