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say it: lay-OH-shuhn
laotian is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais". It is pronounced /leɪˈoʊʃən/ — lay-OH-shuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or relating to Laos or its people
“the Laotian Prime Minister”
“Laotian refugees”
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 laotian 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.