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Rican

Rican is the clipping of Puerto Rican.

Meaning of Puerto Rican

Adjective

Puerto Rican (comparative more Puerto Rican, superlative most Puerto Rican)

  1. Of, from or relating to Puerto Rico or its people.
    Synonyms:
    boricua

See all 2 meanings of Puerto Rican

Forms of Rican

Adjective
comparativemore Rican
superlativemost Rican
Noun
pluralRicans

Phrases with Rican

Questions about Rican

What is Rican the clipping of?
Rican is the clipping of Puerto Rican.

Words near Rican in the dictionary

  1. ribworks
  2. ribwort
  3. ribwort plantain
  4. ribworts
  5. RIC
  6. Rican
  7. ricaniid
  8. ricaniids
  9. Ricans
  10. Ricardian
  11. Ricardian equivalence

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