Galician

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

Equivalents

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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