peninsular
peninsular · peninsulars · peninsulares
One who inhabits a peninsulaOne who inhabits a peninsula.
UK/pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə(ɹ)/US/pəˈnɪn.sə.ləɹ/
Meaning
2 sensesOne who inhabits a peninsula.
(historical)A person born on the Iberian Peninsula who emigrated to a (contemporary or former) Spanish colony.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the hLearned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the historical sense borrowed from Spanish peninsular.
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Forms
plural: peninsulars / peninsulares| Singular | peninsular |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.