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Nigerian

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adjectivenoun
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As an adjective, Nigerian means of or relating to Nigeria. As a noun, it means a native or inhabitant of Nigeria.

Meanings of Nigerian

3 meanings

adjective

  1. Of or relating to Nigeria

    “the Nigerian capital used to be Lagos”

  2. Of or relating to the people of Nigeria

    “a Nigerian novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature this year”

    Similar: Nigerien

noun

  1. A native or inhabitant of Nigeriaperson

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: of or relating to the people of Nigeria
Nigerien

Words that rhyme with Nigerian

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