Lebanese

PluralLebanese

1. 1
   adjective

   Of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon or its people.

   Lebanese cuisine is known for dishes like hummus and tabbouleh.

   The Lebanese coastline stretches along the eastern Mediterranean.

2. 2
   nouncountableplural

   A native or citizen of Lebanon, or a person of Lebanese ancestry.

   As a Lebanese living in Paris, he often cooked the dishes he remembered from Beirut.

   Thousands of Lebanese emigrated to Brazil in the early twentieth century.

   Note

   A noun most at home in the plural: the Lebanese, thousands of Lebanese. Like other words built on -ese, such as Japanese and Portuguese, it takes no -s. For one person, speakers often reach for the adjective instead (a Lebanese engineer, a Lebanese family), though a Lebanese is also used. Leb and Lebo are clipped forms of the same noun.

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