bilbaoan
/bɪlbˈoʊən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from or relating to the city of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
noun
A native or inhabitant of the city of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
Example Sentences
- "Arana, the son of a major Bilbaoan shipbuilder, set out to revitalize a flagging Basque consciousness. One of his major concerns was the restoration of the Basque language, Euskera, which had fallen to the status of a local patois"
- "Antonio's good grammar and mathematical skills landed him a job in the store of an old Bilbaoan friend of his uncle two blocks from the latter's residence."
- "During the French occupation, Bilbaoans were likely to have been exposed to some French culture and influence."
- "Only about 10 percent of Bilbaoans speak Euskara, as compared with 35 to 40 percent of the inhabitants of Donostia. Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country."
Etymology
From Bilbao + -an.