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What is another word for Dominicans?

Pronunciation: [dəmˈɪnɪkənz] (IPA)

Dominicans, who are inhabitants of the Dominican Republic, have various synonyms describing their cultural heritage and ethnic identity. Some commonly used synonyms include Dominicanos, Quisqueyanos, and Dominicanyorks. Dominicanos is a term frequently used by native Spanish-speakers to describe Dominicans. Quisqueyanos is derived from the Taíno word for the island of Hispaniola, Quisqueya, and is often used to emphasize Dominican national pride. Dominicanyorks is a term used to describe Dominicans living in New York City, which has a large Dominican population. These synonyms act as cultural identity markers, representing the diversity and richness of Dominican culture both within the Dominican Republic and beyond its borders.
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What are the hypernyms for Dominicans?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    humans, people, latin americans, caribbean people, Citizens of the Dominican Republic.

Usage examples for Dominicans

Thus he hoped, at one time, to see the Dominicans at Galashiels, and showed the greatest regard for the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, who were for nine years in charge of the mission there, while, both in London, and at Abbotsford and Dorlin, the Fathers of the Oratory and the Secular clergy were welcome and honoured guests.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
After his baptism he became a member of the Order of the Dominicans.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
It was the day when the church is illuminated, and the visitors come with their Baedekers and Hares and Murrays to identify its antiquities of architecture and fresco; it was full of people, and, if I fancied an unusual proportion of English-speaking converts among them, that might well have been, since the adjoining convent belongs to the Irish Dominicans.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells

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