Salvadoran
adj, noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person from El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
"Under Biden, a Trump-era decision to end TPS for Salvadorans was rescinded after a group of Latino officials pleaded with the outgoing president to continue TPS for people from those countries with “meritorious cases,” citing “horrific levels of violence that surged in recent years” in Ecuador, along with the oppression of the Ortega regime that has controlled Nicaragua for decades and “political and environmental conditions” in El Salvador."
- 2 a native or inhabitant of El Salvador wordnet
- 1 Of, from, or pertaining to El Salvador or the Salvadoran people.
"People will fill the plazas of the country tumultuously, like a river in the rainy season, to pay tribute to these brothers of ours who died for the sake of peace, to these brothers who were born in Spain but were more Salvadoran than their assassins, that pack of criminals with no patriotism in their hearts."
- 1 of or relating to or characteristic of El Salvador or its people wordnet
Example
More examples"Under Biden, a Trump-era decision to end TPS for Salvadorans was rescinded after a group of Latino officials pleaded with the outgoing president to continue TPS for people from those countries with “meritorious cases,” citing “horrific levels of violence that surged in recent years” in Ecuador, along with the oppression of the Ortega regime that has controlled Nicaragua for decades and “political and environmental conditions” in El Salvador."
Etymology
From Salvador + -an.
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