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say it: pur-OO-vee-uhn
peruvian is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Peru". It is pronounced /pɚˈuviən/ — pur-OO-vee-uhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Peru
of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people
“Peruvian artifacts”
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 peruvian 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.