[ee-thee-oh-pee-uh
n] 
| 1. | of or pertaining to Ethiopia or to its inhabitants. |
| 2. | belonging to the part of Africa south of the equator. |
| 3. | Zoogeography. belonging to a geographical division comprising Africa south of the tropic of Cancer, the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Madagascar. |
| 4. | Archaic. black African. |
| 5. | a native of Ethiopia. |
| 6. | a member of any of various supposedly dark-skinned peoples regarded by the ancients as coming from a country lying south of Egypt. |
| 7. | Archaic. a black African. |
| E·thi·o·pi·an (ē'thē-ō'pē-ən) adj.
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