CHILEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chilean mean? 

• CHILEAN (noun)
  The noun CHILEAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Chile

  Familiarity information: CHILEAN used as a noun is very rare.

• CHILEAN (adjective)
  The adjective CHILEAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its people

  Familiarity information: CHILEAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHILEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Chile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Chilean" is a kind of...):

South American (a native or inhabitant of South America)

Holonyms ("Chilean" is a member of...):

Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

Derivation:

Chilean (of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its people)

• CHILEAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Chilean volcanoes

Pertainym:

Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

Derivation:

Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

Chilean (a native or inhabitant of Chile)

 Context examples 

In coordination with the volcano studies, the agency's C-20A gathered data over Amazonian forests in Peru, agricultural sites in Chile and glaciers on the Chilean/Argentinian border.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)

On 6 January, the Chilean Meteorological Directorate announced the presence of smoke whose effect was seen in the sun with red tones (…) the product of a cloud of smoke coming from the Australian fires.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

To get a better idea of the properties of this unusual star, named WDJ0914+1914, the team analysed it with the X-shooter instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

Using the new ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s VLT in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the astronomers identified for the first time chemical variations on an ultra-hot gas giant planet.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

To solve this mystery, Farina and his colleagues used the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Chilean Atacama Desert to study quasars — extremely bright objects powered by supermassive black holes which lie at the centre of massive galaxies.

(ESO Observations Reveal Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn, ESO)