kenyan

1. 1.

   a native or inhabitant of Kenya

   BroaderAfrican

   Part ofKenya

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of Kenya or its people

   “Kenyan mountains”

Other forms of kenyan

plural

kenyans·

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.

Questions about kenyan

What does kenyan mean?

kenyan means "a native or inhabitant of Kenya". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kenyan?

kenyan has 2 syllables: ken-yan. The stress falls on "ken". In IPA it is /ˈkɛnjən/.

Is kenyan a common word?

kenyan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.