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Dahoman

Dahoman is the alternative form of Dahomeyan.

Meaning of Dahomeyan

Adjective

Dahomeyan (comparative more Dahomeyan, superlative most Dahomeyan)

  1. Of or pertaining to the state of Dahomey (later, Benin).
    • Dahomeyan raiders kidnapped the men first, then returned to her village the next moon for the women and children.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 3

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Forms of Dahoman

Adjective
comparativemore Dahoman
superlativemost Dahoman
Noun
pluralDahomans

Questions about Dahoman

What is Dahoman the alternative form of?
Dahoman is the alternative form of Dahomeyan.

Words near Dahoman in the dictionary

  1. dahn
  2. Dahnasari
  3. Dahns
  4. dahntahn
  5. Dahod
  6. Dahoman
  7. Dahomans
  8. Dahomean
  9. Dahomeans
  10. Dahomey
  11. Dahomeyan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dahoman (page history and authors); Dahomeyan (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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