Naija

adj, name, noun, slang

adj, name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person from Nigeria.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or from Nigeria.

    "‘If you come [...] you will meet a lot of Naija people there.’"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Nigeria (a country in West Africa). slang

    "We stopped at the mudhif of an important Sayid, and even a spectacled white-turbaned priest from Naija treated us with courtesy, and did not, as did most of those whom we met later, leave the building as soon as we had entered it."

  2. 2
    An English-based creole of Nigeria, combining vocabulary and grammar from the English language as well as various indigenous Nigerian languages and remnants of Portuguese.

Synonyms

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nigerian pidgin

Antonyms

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Jand

Example

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"‘If you come [...] you will meet a lot of Naija people there.’"

Etymology

Borrowed from Nigerian Pidgin Naijá.

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