Ethiopian Definition

ēthē-ōpē-ən
adjective
Of Ethiopia or its people or culture.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the Afrotropical biogeographic region.
American Heritage

Black.

Webster's New World
Designating or of the biogeographic realm that includes Madagascar and all of Africa, except some parts of N Africa in the Palearctic realm.
Webster's New World
noun
A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia.
American Heritage
A person born or living in Ethiopia.
Webster's New World
A black person.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Ethiopian

Noun

Singular:
Ethiopian
Plural:
ethiopians

Origin of Ethiopian

Ethiopian Sentence Examples

  • Sclater' was the first to divide the world into a few great " regions," the Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Indian and Australian forming one group, the " Old World " (Palaeogaea); and the Nearctic and Neotropical forming a second, the New World (Neogaea).

  • So large a portion of the Ethiopian subregion lies between the tropics that no surprise need be expressed at the richness of its fauna relatively to that of the last two subregions we have considered.

  • Some of the similarities to the Ethiopian and the great differences from the Australian avifauna have already been pointed out.

  • Ardeidae, cosmopolitan; including Cancroma, Neotropical, Balaeniceps, Scopidae, Ethiopian.

  • Sennar, lying between Nubia and Abyssinia, was in ancient times under Egyptian or Ethiopian influence and its inhabitants appear to have embraced Christianity at an early period.

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Words Starting With

EETETH

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NANIAN

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