Costa Rican

See also: costarican

English

Etymology

From Costa Rica +‎ -an.

Noun

Costa Rican (plural Costa Ricans)

  1. A person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.

Translations

Adjective

Costa Rican (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Costa Rica.
    He has a home in the Costa Rican hills.
  2. Of or pertaining to the people, language, or culture of Costa Rica.
    His dialect was distinctly Costa Rican.
    • 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN[1]:
      Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.

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Finnish

Proper noun

Costa Rican

  1. genitive singular of Costa Rica