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Nicaraguan

Nicaraguan adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Nicaragua or the people of Nicaragua.

Adjective

Nicaraguan (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Nicaragua or the people of Nicaragua.
    • Widespread anti-regime protests in 2018 were also met with brutal force, with Nicaraguan security forces killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and arbitrarily detaining many, according to Human Rights Watch. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country.2024 August 19, Adam Pourahmadi and Avery Schmitz, “Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close”, in CNN

Noun

Nicaraguan (plural Nicaraguans)

  1. A person from Nicaragua or of Nicaraguan descent.
    • Widespread anti-regime protests in 2018 were also met with brutal force, with Nicaraguan security forces killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and arbitrarily detaining many, according to Human Rights Watch. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country.2024 August 19, Adam Pourahmadi and Avery Schmitz, “Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close”, in CNN

Nicaraguan meaning in Bengali and Tagalog

Nicaraguan in Bengali

নিকারাগুয়ান

Nicaraguan in Tagalog

pertaining to Nicaragua
Nikaraguwense, Nikaragwenyo
person from Nicaragua
Nikaraguwense, Nikaragwenyo

Forms of Nicaraguan

pluralNicaraguans

Origin of Nicaraguan

From Nicaragua + -an.

Words formed from Nicaraguan

Questions about Nicaraguan

What does Nicaraguan mean?
Nicaraguan means of, from, or pertaining to Nicaragua or the people of Nicaragua.
What is Nicaraguan in Bengali?
Nicaraguan in Bengali is নিকারাগুয়ান. See Nicaraguan meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Nicaraguan?
Nicaraguan can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Nicaraguan in the dictionary

  1. Nicanor
  2. Nicanors
  3. Nicar.
  4. Nicaragua
  5. Nicaragua wood
  6. Nicaraguan
  7. Nicaraguan Revolution
  8. Nicaraguan Sign Language
  9. Nicaraguanness
  10. Nicaraguans
  11. Nicarao

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nicaraguan (page history and authors); Nicaraguan (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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