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say it: CHIL-ee-uhn
chilean is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Chile". It is pronounced /ˈtʃɪliən/ — CHIL-ee-uhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Chile
of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its people
“Chilean volcanoes”
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 chilean 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.