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Haitian

[ hey-shuhn, -tee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Haiti or its people.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Haiti.

Haitian

/ hɑːˈiːʃən; ˈheɪʃɪən /

adjective

  1. relating to or characteristic of Haiti, its inhabitants, or their language


noun

  1. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Haiti
  2. the creolized French spoken in Haiti

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Other Words From

  • an·ti-Hai·tian adjective noun
  • pro-Hai·tian adjective noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Haitian1

First recorded in 1795–1805; Haiti + -an

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Example Sentences

Some groups, like Haitian asylum-seekers, weren’t enrolled in the initial Remain in Mexico program and feel left out of the new process to end it.

She didn’t want to eat her aunt’s home-cooked Haitian dishes.

The brand was founded by designer Kerby Jean-Raymond, the son of Haitian immigrants, who turned his studio into a donation center for personal protective equipment during the pandemic.

From Vox

I don’t know if you saw the woman who got elected to congress out in Utah, her family, Mia Love, was Haitian.

From Ozy

As a Haitian-American, I took particular interest in the Haitian Voodoo Boys, one of the game’s many ethnically divided paint-by-numbers gangs.

From Time

It was one of five separate Masses, including in Spanish, English, Haitian-Creole, and Italian.

Jovan Rameau, a Haitian immigrant, graduated from the Institute of Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.

In the short term, however, the Haitian Revolution actually slowed the official antislavery campaign.

U.S. and Canadian peacekeepers were deploying to train Haitian security forces for the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

A child disappears from a Haitian village, showcasing how the island connects with grief in startling ways.

He poured some Haitian rum into a glass, drenched it with soda from the pink-and-green night table.

The extent of the influence of environment is shown in the career of the Dumas family, which is of Haitian-negro origin.

The Haitian incursion in 1995 used similar principles of intimidation to eliminate any real fighting.

I was quite certain that it had something to do with his Haitian assignment.

The Haitian matter, about which we told you last week, promises to arrive at a peaceful settlement.

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