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Salvadorian

Salvadorian

1 3.9
A person born in or living in El Salvador
  • noun
  • /ˌsælvəˈdɔːriən/
translation icon : salvadoreño
  • The restaurant serves authentic Salvadorian dishes that remind me of the food my grandmother made.
  • the Salvadorian

Examples

  • Yeah, we're like, I'm Salvadorian too, bro.

  • El Salvadorians, Cambodians.

  • Now, this is all El Salvadorian food.

  • That night, Dolores was supposed to work on a monument proposal on the subject of "the Salvadorian artist."

  • So my heretic is a person called Bishop Oscar Romero, who was a El Salvadorian Bishop who was killed.

  • I wanted to go to this darling little new Salvadorian bistro on the Lower East Side. TIM groans loudly, OFF SCREEN...

    Fiction book (2000)
  • With almost a foot in South Africa, we will be playing our last two games against the Americans and the El Salvadorians to certify our place in the 2010 World Cup.

    Blog text (4)
  • Besides using the Death Squad's Salvadorian money to fund BAIN, he is not a "venture capitalist"; rather, Romney is a "leveraged buyout specialist."

    Blog text (13)
  • My friend is a Salvadorian who loves to share stories about his childhood in El Salvador.

  • Many Salvadorians celebrate their culture with colorful festivals and traditional music.

Synonyms

Latin American
vsSalvadorian
33 2.1

A person who comes from Latin America

is narrower, applying to one country rather than that large region
Salvadoran
vsSalvadorian
8 3.3

A person from El Salvador

is the alternative spelling form for the same nationality
Central American
vsSalvadorian
4 2.0

A person from Central America

is limited to one specific country rather than the regional group
Salvadorean
vsSalvadorian
3.4

A person from El Salvador

is the more standard single-word spelling for the same nationality

Surface Forms

Salvadorian singular
Salvadorians plural

Morphology

Salvadorian = El Salvador (transparent) = Salvador + ian

Clear demonym formation from the country name 'El Salvador' using the productive suffix '-ian'.

Etymology

Salvadorian comes from the country name El Salvador, which in Spanish means 'the savior' and comes from a word for 'to save', much like the English word savior. So a Salvadorian is someone who is from that country.