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Salvadoran (pluralSalvadorans)
- A person fromEl Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
- Synonyms:El Salvadoran,Salvadoreño
2025 January 16, Barney Davis, “Temporary protected status: Who is protected by Biden’s latest extension?”, inThe Independent[1]:Under Biden, a Trump-era decision to end TPS forSalvadorans was rescinded after a group of Latino officials pleaded with the outgoing president to continue TPS for people from those countries with “meritorious cases,” citing “horrific levels of violence that surged in recent years” in Ecuador, along with the oppression of the Ortega regime that has controlled Nicaragua for decades and “political and environmental conditions” in El Salvador.
a person from El Salvador
Salvadoran (comparativemoreSalvadoran,superlativemostSalvadoran)
- Of, from, or pertaining to El Salvador or the Salvadoran people.
- Synonym:El Salvadoran
1995, José Ignacio López Vigil, translated byMark Fried, “The Stubborn Izote Flower”, inRebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador’s Radio Venceremos, Willimantic, Conn.:Curbstone Press; London: Latin American Bureau,→ISBN, section V (On to the Cities),page228:People will fill the plazas of the country tumultuously, like a river in the rainy season, to pay tribute to these brothers of ours who died for the sake of peace, to these brothers who were born in Spain but were moreSalvadoran than their assassins, that pack of criminals with no patriotism in their hearts.
2020,Bryan Washington,Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page157:I’d been pushing some shopping carts around the grocery store’s parking lot with a coworker, a guy named Rafa, a bigSalvadoran dude.
2025 January 31, Stefano Pozzebon, “Rubio and Bukele to discuss sending suspected gang members from US to El Salvador”, inCNN[2]:The executive order specifically named Tren de Aragua and theSalvadoran MS-13 gang, citing their “campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally” as threats to “the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”
of or pertaining to El Salvador
