Zimbabwean

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English

Etymology

From Zimbabwe +‎ -an.

Noun

Zimbabwean (plural Zimbabweans)

  1. A person from Zimbabwe or of Zimbabwean descent.
    • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 269:
      We were, practically to a person, young Zimbabweans who had no parental backing but who had acquired the means through some sort of tenacity, however dubious, to lodge at the respectable hostel.

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Adjective

Zimbabwean (comparative more Zimbabwean, superlative most Zimbabwean)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people.
    • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 288:
      ‘Oh Dick! You’re a poet, although you don’t know it!’ Belinda, with that annoying Zimbabwean habit of repeating clichés as though they were a novel observation, made her way towards Dick bearing a gin and tonic.

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