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El Salvadoran en · ADJ

Etymology

From El Salvador + -an.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of Salvadoran.
    • Sen. Hollen wanted a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele during his recent visit to the United States, not to discuss his success in ridding the El Salvadoran society of its criminal element and how the U.S. might emulate it, but instead to discuss how the U.S. might retrieve some of the darling MS-13ers who were recently flown to El Salvador. 2025 April 15, Bill Ponton, “Championing the MS-13ers”, in American Thinker:
    • His dissertation committee told him in no uncertain terms that they could never approve his proposal, because to do his research would be violating El Salvadoran law and to publish his research would endanger his informants. 1988, Stephen Mosher, “Battling Stanford”, in Les Csorba, III., editor, Academic License: The War on Academic Freedom, Evanston, Ill.: UCA Books, →ISBN, part 3 (The Assault on Academic Freedom and Free Speech), page 225:
    • Grasping the foundations enabled us to replicate Madame Hai’s banana flower salad—even though we weren’t clear on all of her instructions—once we were back home in our own kitchen, far from the markets of Vietnam, using hand-raked salt from the Camargue, chilies from an El Salvadoran market down the street, and nuoc mam smuggled back in our suitcase, despite Vietnam Airline’s ban on carrying firearms, drugs, and fish sauce onto its planes. 2010, Kim Fay, “Delicious Flavor”, in Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam, San Francisco, Calif.: ThingsAsian Press, →ISBN, “Hanoi” section, page 31:
    • We have no standard with which to compare the El Salvadoran food served here, so whether it is authentic or not, peasant or city, ritzy or every day we cannot say. 1980, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, “El Calderon”, in Roadfood, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, “The West” section, “California” subsection, “Mountain View” subsubsection, page 320:

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Synonyms

Salvadoran

El Salvadoran en · NOUN

Etymology

From El Salvador + -an.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of Salvadoran.
    • The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days.. 2020 March 12, “It's coronavirus-free, but El Salvador is banning all foreign travellers”, in The Straits Times:
    • Lolly was a solid and steady, fortyish El Salvadoran who had lived in California for over twenty years. 2006, Dianne Emley, chapter 24, in The First Cut: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 210:
    • Eight United Nations military observers will join the Commission staff next week. They include two Australians, two Canadians, two El Salvadorans and two from the Philippines. 1950 July 3, “UN Commission Back in Korea”, in China Mail, number 34629, Hong Kong, →OCLC, page 5, column 5:

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El Salvadorans Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

Salvadoran