Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word GRENADIAN
GRENADIAN
Definitions of GRENADIAN
- A person from Grenada or of Grenadian descent.
- Of, from, or pertaining to Grenada, the Grenadian people or the Grenadian language.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using GRENADIAN in a Sentence
- However, over time the minority of the population use a colloquial spoken language considered to be either English-based creole languages or (Grenadian Creole English) and which is said to reflect the African, European and Indian heritage of the nation.
- The invaders quickly defeated Grenadian resistance after a low-altitude assault by the Rangers and 82nd Airborne at Point Salines Airport on the island's south end, and a Marine helicopter and amphibious landing at Pearls Airport on the north end.
- While studying Grenadian history, Bishop focused on anti-British speeches and the life of slave revolt leader Julien Fédon, the head of the 1795 uprising.
- His father Henry Wharton was a Grenadian missionary of Scottish and West African descent, while his mother, Annie Florence Egyriba was a member of the Fante Ghanaian royalty.
- Its founders, Theodore Victor, aka "Teddy", Sebastian Thomas, Unison Whiteman, and Wally Jeremiah, all discontented with the opposition party Grenada National Party (GNP) under Herbert Blaize decided to build a grass roots movement that would organize and educate the Grenadian masses, publishing a weekly newspaper, The New Jewel.
- After the revolution, the PRG extended state control over the economy, following recipes inspired by those of communist regimes: trade, infrastructure and non-agricultural businesses were largely nationalized; although agriculture, predominant in the Grenadian economy, remained essentially in the private sector, government representatives were appointed to supervise agricultural exports.
- Sweets include kurma, guava cheese, fudge or barfi, tamarind balls, rum-raisin ice cream, currant rolls, and Grenadian spice cake.
- Following the 1983 invasion of Grenada, Brathwaite, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was appointed by Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon to reestablish the Grenadian government.
- Mark was born in Kensal Rise, London to Grenadian immigrant parents, Sound-system operator and record producer Lloyd Coxsone provided dubplates for the contestants to sing over at the contests and, in late 1974, provided the fifteen-year-old Mark with her first recording session, at Gooseberry Studios, where she recorded a cover version of Robert Parker's "Caught You in a Lie", on which she was backed by Matumbi, the single also being released in Jamaica by Gussie Clarke.
- Marryshow founded the Representative Government Association (RGA) in 1918 to agitate for a new and participative constitutional dispensation for the Grenadian people.
- Despite the placement of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) logo at the top of the document's front cover, Grenadian passports are issued by the Immigration and Passport Department (an extension arm of the Royal Grenada Police Force) and at the diplomatic missions and honorary consulates of Grenada abroad.
- Social interpretations of race are mutable rather than deterministic and neither physical appearance nor ancestry are used straightforwardly to determine whether a person is considered a Black Grenadian.
- With a deep sense of purpose and not a hint of literary showiness, Collins brings together many voices, from eighteenth-century English letter-writers to Black rights orators, and she honours the rich Grenadian creole, now largely lost, with a new life here on the page.
- The United States, supported by several other delegations, formally objected to the presence of the Grenadian delegate, stating that Sir Paul Scoon Governor-General of Grenada had informed the Secretary-General that no one was authorised to represent Grenada before the UN and that no credentials for the Thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly had been presented by Grenada.
- Fédon, says Jacobs—"Grenada's first anticolonial, antislavery, proto-nationalist hero"—was a direct influence on Maurice Bishop, leader of the 1979 Grenadian Revolution; Caribbean scholar Manning Marable argues that it was Bishop's "intimate knowledge" of Grenadian history that allowed him to place his revolution within the "tradition of resistance" begun by Fédon.
- Twenty-five players have captained the Windwards in at least one first-class match, with Grenadian Rawl Lewis' 69 matches between 2000 and 2009 the most of any one player.
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