Definitions

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  • adjective of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants.
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Gabon.

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  • noun A person from Gabon or of Gabonese descent.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Gabon or the Gabonese people

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a native or inhabitant of Gabon
  • adjective of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants

Etymologies

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From Gabon +‎ -ese

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Examples

  • They have also expressed doubt that reforms promised by a new government appointed December 28 by long-term Gabonese President Omar

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • DUPREE: The group, the group behind me are from Central African, Gabon and they're called the Gabonese Acrobatic Children.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2001 2001

  • Earlier, the White House again defended Mr. Obama's decision to meet with the Gabonese president.

    Obama Urges Gabon's President to Root Out Corruption 2011

  • On Friday morning they gathered on a scruffy beach in Libreville, sang and laid flowers in the water for their compatriots who had died in 1993, shortly after taking off from the Gabonese capital for a World Cup qualifier in Senegal.

    Zambia 0-0 Ivory Coast (7-8 on pens) | Africa Cup of Nations final report 2012

  • After the meeting, the president of the U.N. Security Council for June, Gabonese Ambassador Nelson Messone, read a communiqué from the 15-member council.

    Security Council Endorses Ban for Second Term as UN Chief 2011

  • The defendants had been led to believe that they could participate in the contract if they agreed to inflate their prices on invoices to the Gabonese government, masking a $3 million "commission," according to evidence presented at trial.

    Jury Clears Two Businessmen in 'Sting' Case on Bribery Christopher M. Matthews 2012

  • The event has been marked by a Pontifical Mass in the usus antiquior celebrated by Msgr. Mvé Engone, at which the bishop of Port-Gentil, Mathieu Madega, as well as ministers of the Gabonese government assisted.

    Personal Parish for the Institute of Christ the King in Gabon 2009

  • In several rounds of anonymous voting, both Jean Ping, a former Gabonese foreign minister who has led the commission since 2008, and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma , South Africa's home affairs minister and former wife of President Jacob Zuma, failed to win two-thirds majority support from members of the 54-member organization.

    African Union Vote Ends With No New Leader Patrick McGroarty 2012

  • After the meeting, the president of the U.N. Security Council for June, Gabonese Ambassador Nelson Messone, read a communiqué from the 15-member council.

    Security Council Endorses Ban for Second Term as UN Chief 2011

  • The five defendants in the case, owners and executives of small military-equipment companies, were among 22 people charged in 2009 in connection with a purported scheme to pay a $1.5 million bribe to the Gabonese defense minister in return for what undercover investigators said was a $15 million contract to outfit his country's national guard.

    Jury Clears Two Businessmen in 'Sting' Case on Bribery Christopher M. Matthews 2012

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