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Definition of Sierra Leonian
1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Sierra Leone or the Sierra Leonian people. ¹
2. Noun. A person from Sierra Leone or of Sierra Leonian descent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sierra Leonian
Literary usage of Sierra Leonian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glimpses of the Ages: Or, The "superior" and "inferior" Races, So-called by Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes (1908)
"... three shillings a head for the colony, and a little under one shilling a head
for the Protectorate, that is to say, the Sierra Leonian pays more than ..."
2. Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1897)
"The Kruman, the Accra, and the Sierra Leonian are at present on the West Coast
the only solution available. The first is as fine a ship-and-beach-man as you ..."
3. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby (1897)
"The Kruman, the Accra, and the Sierra Leonian are at present on the West Coast
the only solution available. The first is as fine a ship-and-beach-man as you ..."
4. Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1904)
"The Kruman, the Accra, and the Sierra Leonian are at present on the West Coast
the only solution available. The first is as fine a ship-and-beach-man as you ..."
5. The Sherbro and Its Hinterland by Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1901)
"... close by, where there had been a large trading station belonging to a Sierra
Leonian, nothing was left when we got there but some stone steps. ..."
6. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1898)
"... of a bush path as easily as you would shops in your own street at home.
designate Sierra Leonian and Accras, in fact, all the outer barbarian blacks. ..."
7. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1912)
"rand Panjandrum himself, in the shape of Sergeant Turner, of the Cotton Coast
Constabulary, a stout Sierra Leonian, who, having settled in Anani many years ..."
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