costa rican
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to Costa Rica.
adj
Of or pertaining to the people, language, or culture of Costa Rica.
Example Sentences
- "He has a home in the Costa Rican hills."
- "His dialect was distinctly Costa Rican."
- "Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores."
Etymology
From Costa Rica + -an.