See also: algerian

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Etymology

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From Algeria +‎ -n.

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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.

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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.)

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Algerian

  1. genitive singular of Algeria