Algerian

From Algeria +‎ -n.

• IPA^(key): /ælˈd͡ʒɪɹi.ən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɹiən

Algerian (plural Algerians)

1. A person from Algeria or of Algerian descent.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 197:

     It was a view that would not necessarily be shared by Algerians subjected to the gégène or having had their bellies pumped full of water during the Battle of Algiers.

Algerian (comparative more Algerian, superlative most Algerian)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Algeria or the Algerian people.
   • 2007 April 26, Janet Maslin, “Terrorists Reel in a Pawn From Small-Town Iraq”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     (Yasmina Khadra is a female pseudonym for a former Algerian army officer, Mohammed Moulessehoul, who lives in France and whose work has once again been overheatedly translated by John Cullen.)

• Horatio Algerian

• Elgarian, geranial, regalian

Algerian

1. genitive singular of Algeria