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Tripolitanian

Tripolitanian adjective: of, or relating to, Tripolitania.

Adjective

Tripolitanian (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to, Tripolitania.
    • Two of the locomotives remaining in Italy were sent across the Mediterranean to Tripoli, at the time a base for Rommel's armies in North Africa, although they could not run on the 3 ft. 1½ in.-gauge Tripolitanian railways.1955 December, P. M. Kalla-Bishop, “Letters to the Editor: Italian-Built Garratts in Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 873

Noun

Tripolitanian (plural Tripolitanians)

  1. An inhabitant or native of Tripolitania.

Forms of Tripolitanian

pluralTripolitanians

Origin of Tripolitanian

From Tripolitania + -an.

Questions about Tripolitanian

What does Tripolitanian mean?
Tripolitanian means of, or relating to, Tripolitania.
What part of speech is Tripolitanian?
Tripolitanian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Tripolitanian in the dictionary

  1. Tripoli powders
  2. Tripoline
  3. tripolis
  4. Tripolitan
  5. Tripolitania
  6. Tripolitanian
  7. Tripolitanians
  8. Tripolitans
  9. tripolite
  10. tripolitic
  11. tripolymer

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