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Cambodian

[ kam-boh-dee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambodia, its people, or its culture.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Cambodia.

Cambodian

/ kæmˈbəʊdɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Cambodia

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Other Words From

  • an·ti-Cam·bo·di·an adjective noun
  • pro-Cam·bo·di·an adjective noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cambodian1

First recorded in 1760–70; Cambodi(a) + -an

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Example Sentences

For example, the Cambodian population that’s in the United States—many of them were traumatized by government.

In February 1971 Bradlee was scheduled to visit Vietnam, and the day before his arrival, Osnos arranged to join a helicopter flight to the Cambodian border with other journalists.

The school serves a mix of students from the city’s refugee communities — Hmong, Laotian, Cambodian and Sudanese students.

A typical experience is that of Lang Long, a poor Cambodian man Urbina met in Thailand.

She talks to her family, other Cambodian immigrants in her South Philadelphia neighborhood and community groups about the candidates and the races.

The initial collections displayed Cambodian menu photo rejects and paper found in copy machines.

One New York City-based salon owner on teaching Cambodian sex trade survivors his tricks of the trade.

The company reacted on Monday, vowing to ensure better conditions for their Cambodian seamstresses.

The 22-minute report (that you can watch with English subtitles here), alleges that H&M's Cambodian workers are vastly underpaid.

A new Swedish documentary alleges that the retailer pays its Cambodian workers $.45 an hour.

The Cambodian ballet-girls, when dancing in public, wear clothes that are simply fairy-like.

I had him removed from the window by force, undeterred by the insults with which he overwhelmed me in the Cambodian tongue.

The other Cambodian provinces now ruled by Siam are almost totally unknown by Europeans.

For example, the origin of the Mo practice of filing the teeth may be sought in a Cambodian fable.

We prefer the Cambodian sage who remarked: "In hell, it's bad form to harp on the heat."

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