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Æthiopian

Æthiopian is the obsolete spelling of Ethiopian.

Meaning of Ethiopian

Adjective

Ethiopian (comparative more Ethiopian, superlative most Ethiopian)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.
    • One of Ethiopia's most popular traditional dances, eskista, which is said to have originated from the lower highlands of Ethiopia's Amhara region, exemplifies the type of multi-functionality that Martin (1967) acknowledges as it is performed in many different settings of the Ethiopian community.2018 February 20, Adesola Akinleye, Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices, →ISBN, page 195
    Synonyms:
    Ethiopic
  2. (dated, not comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to Africa and the African diaspora.
    • Any person of color recognized his Ethiopian heritage immediately. That nose, those lips, good hair or no.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 314

See all 5 meanings of Ethiopian

Forms of Æthiopian

Adjective
comparativemore Æthiopian
superlativemost Æthiopian
Noun
pluralÆthiopians

Questions about Æthiopian

What is Æthiopian the obsolete spelling of?
Æthiopian is the obsolete spelling of Ethiopian.

Words near Æthiopian in the dictionary

  1. ætheriall
  2. ætheric
  3. æthers
  4. Æthiop
  5. Æthiopia
  6. Æthiopian
  7. Æthiopians
  8. Æthiopic
  9. æthiops
  10. æthiops mineral
  11. æthrioscope

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Æthiopian (page history and authors); Ethiopian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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