Meaning of Galician | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, from or relating to Galicia, Spain
2. A native or inhabitant of Galicia, Spain.
   countable, uncountable
3. A native or inhabitant of Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine.
4. Of or pertaining to the Galician language
5. The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula.
   uncountable
6. A native or inhabitant of Galicia, Spain
7. The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula
8. Of, from or relating to Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine

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Examples

“The little Galician was sitting nibbling a biscuit with a glass of red wine before him.”

“In Argentina, too, there is a community of Welsh-speakers. Similarly some Galicians, Catalans and Basques have retained their mother tongues in ways that had they remained, respectively in the United Kingdom or Spain, might have been more difficult to do.”

“The Portuguese claim that a Galician would never be generous, as a Portuguese would. On their side, the Galicians tell the story of the Portuguese who invites some Galicians to dinner and then gives his guests very little to eat.”

“Rosalia de Castro became a crucial element in this early nationalist cultural campaign: she spoke Galician as her first language and she was literate, educated, and sympathetic to the group's progressive aims.”

“According to Manuilsky, some Galicians idealized the Austro-Hungarian past for the empire's promotion of national autonomy, yet the Habsburgs had discouraged Eastern Galicia's economic development, whereas the Soviet power would 'turn Lviv into one of the biggest industrial centres of Soviet Ukraine.'”

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