Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a group of people in southern Louisiana descended from French colonists exiled from Acadia in the 1700s.
  • adjective Of or relating to the Cajuns or their culture.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fiber-plant, Furcræa Cubensis, of the amaryllis family, a native of tropical America. It yields a strong white fiber used for cordage. Compare cocuiza.
  • noun See Cadjen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Ethnol.) In Louisiana, a person reputed to be Acadian French descent. Also used attributively, as in Cajun cooking.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A member of an ethnic group of Acadian French origin, primarily living in Southern Louisiana.
  • adjective Relating to the Cajun people or their culture.
  • adjective Of spicy food prepared in the style of the Cajun people.

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

  • noun a Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of Acadian.]

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An Anglicization of the Acadian French Cadien, an aphaeretic form of Acadien ("Acadian"), reflecting the palatization of /dj/ to /d͡ʒ/ in the Acadian dialect.

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Examples

  • MARCIANO: Are you familiar with the term Cajun paper cut?

    CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2005 2005

  • This is -- Erath is a town of about 2,500 people or so and is in Vermilion Parish, the heart of what they call Cajun country.

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005 2005

  • They bought her, so to speak, in Cajun country from her mother for $500 and two dresses.

    Interest Turns Away, But Gulf Coast Still Suffers 2010

  • And then the House passes the bill and the Senate jacks around for weeks to insure that Nelson gets a Nebraska pony that gives blow jobs and Landrieu gets bags of cash to pass out to her Ragin Cajun friends.

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » School Uniforms 2010

  • But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • I live here, and it's been my home most of my adult life and the few years I spent in Cajun country shouldn't have had such a profound lasting imprint.

    February 2008 2008

  • But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • I live here, and it's been my home most of my adult life and the few years I spent in Cajun country shouldn't have had such a profound lasting imprint.

    sense of place 2008

  • But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

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