Salvadoran

plural Salvadorans · alternative Salvadorean · alternative Salvadorian

1. A person from El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.

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   Under Biden, a Trump-era decision to end TPS for Salvadorans was rescinded after a group of Latino officials pleaded with the outgoing president to continue TPS for people from those countries with “meritorious cases,” citing “horrific levels of violence that surged in recent years” in Ecuador, along with the oppression of the Ortega regime that has controlled Nicaragua for decades and “political and environmental conditions” in El Salvador.

   2025 January 16, Barney Davis, “Temporary protected status: Who is protected by Biden’s latest extension?”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2025

   Synonyms: El Salvadoran, Salvadoreño

comparative more Salvadoran · superlative most Salvadoran · alternative Salvadorean · alternative Salvadorian

1. Of, from, or pertaining to El Salvador or the Salvadoran people.

   I’d been pushing some shopping carts around the grocery store’s parking lot with a coworker, a guy named Rafa, a big Salvadoran dude.

   2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 157

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   People will fill the plazas of the country tumultuously, like a river in the rainy season, to pay tribute to these brothers of ours who died for the sake of peace, to these brothers who were born in Spain but were more Salvadoran than their assassins, that pack of criminals with no patriotism in their hearts.

   1995, José Ignacio López Vigil, translated by Mark Fried, “The Stubborn Izote Flower”, in Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador’s Radio Venceremos, Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press; London: Latin American Bureau, →ISBN, section V (On to the Cities), page 228

   The executive order specifically named Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran MS-13 gang, citing their “campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally” as threats to “the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”

   2025 January 31, Stefano Pozzebon, “Rubio and Bukele to discuss sending suspected gang members from US to El Salvador”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2025

   Synonyms: El Salvadoran