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Shetlanders

Shetlanders is the plural of Shetlander.

Meaning of Shetlander

Noun

Shetlander (plural Shetlanders)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the Shetland Islands.
    • The Shetlanders believe in two kinds of Trows, as they call the Scandinavian Trolls, those of the land and those of the sea.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 260

Questions about Shetlanders

What is Shetlanders the plural of?
Shetlanders is the plural of Shetlander.

Words near Shetlanders in the dictionary

  1. Shetland pony
  2. Shetland sheepdog
  3. Shetland sheepdogs
  4. Shetland wool
  5. Shetlander
  6. Shetlanders
  7. Shetlandian
  8. Shetlandic
  9. Shetlandish
  10. shetlands
  11. Shetler

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