Bahamiann.adj.
/bəˈheɪmɪən/, /bəˈhɑːmɪən/, U.S. /bəˈhɑmiən/, /bəˈheɪmiən/ A. n.
A native or inhabitant of the Bahamas.
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1734 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. vi. Pl. 1 The hungry Bahamians.
1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 315 The Pork-Fish. The Bahamians esteem this a good Fish.
1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 151/1 Some few lay up their money... The Bahamians nearly all belong to this saving class.
1961 I. Fleming Thunderball x. 109 All Bahamians know that treasure is there for the finding.
2001 Times 22 Oct. ii. 18/6 She was a Bahamian, and..she instilled a sense of personal esteem and self-sufficiency in Kravitz Jr.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or native to the Bahamas.
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1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 151/1 One of the Keys which, on account of its proximity to the wrecking ground, and the abundance of turtle in its neighborhood, had been settled by some Bahamian and Spanish families, was the frequent scene of the frolics.
1954 Caribbean Q. 3 iv. 187 The art of story telling as practised by two Bahamian ‘old-story tellers’.
1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 1/1 The Bahamian dollar would be devalued 12.7 per cent, to put it on par with the U.S. dollar.
2003 Rolling Stone 3 Apr. 70 The late Bahamian singer-guitarist plays nothing but the good-time blues.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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