goan
/ɡˈoʊn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Goa or its people, culture, or languages.
verb
verb
Pronunciation spelling of going to.
Example Sentences
- "2005, https://www.ruthdesouza.com/2005/07/29/, What does it mean to be Goan?, paragraphs 11-14: The following anonymous poem does more to illustrate the place of sorpotel in the connections of Goans to ‘home’. SORPOTEL For the hotch potch known as Haggis, let the Scotsman yearn or yell. For the taste of Yorkshire pudding, let the English family dwell. For the famed Tandoori Chicken, that Punjabis praise like hell. But for us who hail from Goa, there’s nothing like SORPOTEL! From the big wigs in Colaba, to the small fry in Cavel. From the growing tribes in Bandra, to the remnants in Parel. From the lovely girls in Glaxo, to the boys in Burma Shell. There’s no Goan whose mouth won’t water, when you talk of SORPOTEL! And Oh! for Christmas dinner don’t you think it would be swell. If by some freak of fortune or by some magic spell. We could, as they have in Goa a bottle of the cajel. And toddy leavened sannas to go with SORPOTEL!"
- "2017, Julian Zuzarte, Like Milk and Coffee: A Study of Post-Liberation Goan Identity, page 30: Lastly, the most recent era of economic development/global Goan community is where othering may most evidently play a part in Goan identity. While economic development in Goa began earlier in the 1980s, the decade of the 1990s was when Goan cultural identity started to truly come under attack via tourism and Western influence."
Etymology
From Goa + -an.