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Bahamian

Definitions: Bahamian

Bahamian

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bahama Islands or their inhabitants; "Bahamian population".

Noun

1. A native or inhabitant of the Bahamas.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Bahamian

DomainDefinitions

Geography

Inhabitant of The Bahamas. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bahamian

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField
BADEnglishBahamian DollarFinance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Bahamian

English words defined with "Bahamian": Bahamian dollar. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bahamian

DomainTitle

Books

  • Turtle Soup Theory: Bahamian Out Island Poetry (reference)

  • Bahamian History Highlights: Condensed and Illustrated (reference)

  • Blood on the Empire: Bahamian Murder Mystery (reference)

  • Conchtown, USA: Bahamian Fisherfolk in Riviera Beach, Florida (reference)

  • Dictionary of Bahamian English (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bahamian

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

The Bahamas

Eighty-five percent of the Bahamian population is of African heritage. (references)

Bahamas

The choice of a Bahamian partner is left to the discretion of the investor. (references)

Bahamas

Bahamian safety and pollution standards are less restrictive than those in the United States. (references)

Human Rights

Bahamas

Some judges have been brought in from abroad; while familiar with English common law, they lack experience regarding Bahamian law and procedures. (references)

Bahamas

Haitians usually are repatriated within 48 hours, due to increased cooperation between Bahamian and Haitian authorities and improved efficiency in processing. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

A WTO Working Party has been formed to consider Bahamian accession. (references)

Political Rights

Bahamas

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Janet Bostwick, also directs the Bahamian Bureau of Women's Affairs. (references)

Trade

Bahamas

Import/Export Documentation Requirements: Entry forms are required by Bahamian Customs for goods coming by sea, air or post. (references)

Bahamas

Bahamian banks tend to be more conservative than their American counterparts in making business loans, often asking for high levels of collateral. (references)

Travel

Bahamas

Thus, Bahamian partners may still retain some reservations even after meetings that ended with firm handshakes and pleasantries. (references)

Bahamas

Since much of Bahamian social life revolves around church, an invitation to a church service is a sign of personal respect and affection. (references)

Bahamas

Acceptable topics of conversation include: sports; the tourist business; the beauty of the islands; the weather; and unique or distinctive aspects of Bahamian culture such as the local cuisine, junkanoo, local music, art, architecture, and history. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bahamian

"Bahamian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bahamian" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3063,341

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Bahamian

Expression using "Bahamian": Bahamian dollar. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Bahamian": bahamian-registered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bahamian

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sandal royal bahamian

65

bahamian recipe

35

royal bahamian

22

bahamian food

17

bahamian

16

bahamian flag

15

bahamian music

15

bahamian diet

13

bahamian review royal sandal

11

bahamian girl

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bahamian

Language Translations for "Bahamian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

bahamský, bahamec. (various references)

   

Danish

  

bahamaner. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Bahamaans. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

bahamano, bahama. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

bahamalainen. (various references)

   

French

  

Bahamien. (various references)

   

German

  

Bahamaer. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

BSD (Bahamian dollar, Berkeley systems design), μπαχαμιανό δολάριο (Bahamian dollar-ISO code), δολάριο Μπαχάμας (Bahamian dollar-ISO code), δολάριο Μπαχαμών (Bahamian dollar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bahamiano. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ahamianbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

baamiano. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bahameño, bahamés. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bahaman. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Bahamian

Misspellings

"Bahamian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abrahamian, Babaian, Badamhand, bathonian, Bohannan, Buhagiar, ebrahimian, sahagian. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bahamian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-h-i-m-n"

-3 letters: amain, amnia, anima, bimah, mania.

-4 letters: amah, amia, amin, bani, bima, iamb, main, mana, mina.

-5 letters: aah, aba, aha, aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ani, baa, bah, bam, ban, bin, ham, him, hin, man, mib, nab, nah, nam, nib, nim.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-h-i-m-n"
 

+3 letters: amphisbaena.

 

+4 letters: amphisbaenae, amphisbaenas.

 

+5 letters: analphabetism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bahamian


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 68 61 6D 69 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    ....    .-    --    ..    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101000 01100001 01101101 01101001 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#104 &#97 &#109 &#105 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0068 0061 006D 0069 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3667746779756780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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