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Dahomean

Dahomean 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 Dahomean

Adjective
comparativemore Dahomean
superlativemost Dahomean
Noun
pluralDahomeans

Questions about Dahomean

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

Words near Dahomean in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dahomean (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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