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/naɪdʒˈɪriən/ Listen

adjective

Nigerian adj.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country Nigeria; as, The Nigerian capital used to be Lagos.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the inhabitants of Nigeria; as, A Nigerian novelist won the Noble Prize for literature this year.

proper noun

Nigerian n. A native or inhabitant of Nigeria.

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Etymology of 'Nigerian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nigerian" Quotes from Famous Books

... Considerable progress had been made by June in overrunning this vast territory, half as large again as the German Empire in Europe: the French had occupied Lome from the south, while the British, after some checks on the Nigerian frontier, had advanced to Ngaundere. The rainy season then set in, and operations were suspended until October. The Germans had transferred their capital to Yaunde, which was made the objective of converging attacks ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

... found an opportunity in which to tell her, unheard by his parents, that he was practically certain of his Nigerian appointment, and must that night break it to his father and mother. And Diana had listened like a sister, all sympathy and kind looks, promising in the young man's ear, as he said good-bye at the garden gate, that she would come again next day to ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... and the first two games fell to him and his partner owing to a certain wildness in the returns of Princess Pongo, a Nigerian lady of remarkable agility who has only been playing tennis for the last three months, as, owing to the laws of the Hausa tribe, mixed tennis is strictly forbidden in Nigeria. The Princess was, however, well backed up by her partner, the Baron ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 • Various

... to draw out her guest, and dinner passed off gaily, for Bernard Clowes was no dog in the manger, and listened with sparkling eyes to adventures that ranged from Atlantic sailing in a thirty-ton yacht to a Nigerian rhinoceros shoot. Nor was Lawrence the focus of the lime-light-he was unaffectedly modest; but when, in expatiating on a favourite rifle, he confessed to having held fire till a charging rhinoceros bull was within eight and twenty yards of him, Bernard could supply the ...

— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde