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Costa Rican

Costa Rican noun: a person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.

Noun

Costa Rican (plural Costa Ricans)

  1. A person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.

Adjective

Costa Rican (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Costa Rica.
    • He has a home in the Costa Rican hills.
  2. Of or pertaining to the people, language, or culture of Costa Rica.
    • His dialect was distinctly Costa Rican.
    • Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN

Costa Rican meaning in Bengali

Costa Rican in Bengali

কোস্টা রিকান

Forms of Costa Rican

pluralCosta Ricans

Origin of Costa Rican

From Costa Rica + -an.

Questions about Costa Rican

What does Costa Rican mean?
Costa Rican means a person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.
What is Costa Rican in Bengali?
Costa Rican in Bengali is কোস্টা রিকান. See Costa Rican meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Costa Rican?
Costa Rican can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Costa Rican?
The plural of Costa Rican is Costa Ricans.

Words near Costa Rican in the dictionary

  1. Costa del Crime
  2. Costa del Sol
  3. Costa hummingbird
  4. Costa Mesa
  5. Costa Rica
  6. Costa Rican
  7. Costa Ricans
  8. Costa's hummingbird
  9. Costa's hummingbirds
  10. Costabile
  11. Costabiles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Costa Rican (page history and authors); Costa Rican (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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