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say it: KAY-juhn
cajun is a noun meaning "a Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')". It is pronounced /ˈkeɪdʒən/ — KAY-juhn. It carries one recorded sense.
a Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cajun come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.