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say it: HAY-shuhn
haitian is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Haiti". It is pronounced /ˈheɪʃən/ — HAY-shuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Haiti
of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people
“Haitian shantytowns”
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 haitian 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.