Beninese
/bɛnɪˈniːz/
Beninese adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Benin, the Beninese people.
Adjective
Beninese (comparative more Beninese, superlative most Beninese)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Benin, the Beninese people.
Noun
Beninese (plural Beninese)
- A person from Benin or of Beninese descent.
- “They wanted to know what part of Africa my parents hailed from,” Caesar said. “How was I to know? He said I had the nose of a Beninese.”2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), pages 147–148
Beninese meaning in Marathi and Bengali
Beninese in Marathi
- of, from, or pertaining to Benin
- बेनिनी beninī
- person
- बेनिनी beninī
Beninese in Bengali
- বেনিনীয়
Forms of Beninese
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Beninese |
| superlative | most Beninese |
| alternative form | Beninoise |
| Noun | |
| plural | Beninese |
Origin of Beninese
From Benin + -ese.
Words that rhyme with Beninese
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about Beninese
- What does Beninese mean?
- Beninese means of, from, or pertaining to Benin, the Beninese people.
- What is Beninese in Marathi?
- Beninese in Marathi is बेनिनी (beninī). See Beninese meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is Beninese?
- Beninese can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Beninese?
- Beninese is pronounced /bɛnɪˈniːz/.
Words near Beninese in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Beninese (page history and authors); Beninese (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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