Bilbaoan

1. not comparableOf, from or relating to the city of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.

   Antonio's good grammar and mathematical skills landed him a job in the store of an old Bilbaoan friend of his uncle two blocks from the latter's residence.

   1998, José C. Moya, Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930

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   Arana, the son of a major Bilbaoan shipbuilder, set out to revitalize a flagging Basque consciousness. One of his major concerns was the restoration of the Basque language, Euskera, which had fallen to the status of a local patois

   1984, Dorothy Legarreta, The Guernica generation: Basque refugee children of the Spanish Civil War

plural Bilbaoans

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.

   During the French occupation, Bilbaoans were likely to have been exposed to some French culture and influence.

   1989, Barbara Rosen, Arriaga the Forgotten Genius: The Short Life of a Basque Composer

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   Only about 10 percent of Bilbaoans speak Euskara, as compared with 35 to 40 percent of the inhabitants of Donostia. Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country.

   2007, William A. Douglass, Joseba Zulaika, Basque culture: anthropological perspectives