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say it: suh-MOH-uhn
samoan is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of the Samoan Islands". It is pronounced /səˈmoʊən/ — suh-MOH-uhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of the Samoan Islands
of or relating to Samoa or its people or language or culture
“Samoan fishing industry”
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 samoan 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.