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Definition of Mauritanian
1. Adjective. Of or related to the island or country of Mauritius or its inhabitants. "Mauritanian tropical fish"
Derivative terms: Mauritania, Mauritian, Mauritius, Mauritius
Partainyms: Mauritius, Mauritius, Mauritius, Mauritius
2. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Mauritania.
Generic synonyms: African
Definition of Mauritanian
1. Noun. A person from Mauritania or of Mauritanian descent. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritania, the Mauritanian people or the Mauritanian language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mauritanian
Literary usage of Mauritanian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: An Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, Thomas Moore Musgrave (1826)
"Thyself, O hapless mauritanian, Deceive not with the hope thou yet mayst till
Iberia's fertile fields; for Alcacer, And Serpa, Moura, Elvas, all have fall'n ..."
2. Mauritania's Campaign of Terror: State-Sponsored Repression of Black Africans by Janet Fleischman (1994)
"This incident — for which Senegal held mauritanian authorities responsible,
although Mauritania repeatedly denied it — sparked a chain of events that ..."
3. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"The aurochs, or northern form of Bos taurus, was probably a larger animal than
the mauritanian ox.1 In its finest development in Britain and Germany it was ..."
4. Human Rights Watch World Report 1992 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (1991)
"The only human rights organization that exists in Mauritania is the pro-government
mauritanian League for Human Rights, which rarely criticizes the ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"To this end ambassadors were despatched to the mauritanian court, who intimated
to Bocchus ' that it would be highly imprudent to come to a rupture with the ..."
6. Protectors Or Pretenders?: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa by Binaifer Nowrojee (2001)
"Why don't they recognize the thirteen independent mauritanian NGOs? ... 6 If the
mauritanian commission is to have any chance of becoming an effective body ..."
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