georgian
/ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒən/
Frequency: 3.51 in modern English
Meaning
name
The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
noun
A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
noun
A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. state of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.
adj
Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).
Example Sentences
- "Trump attorney Lin Wood, a favorite of the QAnon crowd, is advising Georgians not to vote for Perdue and Loeffler."
- "As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time."
- "The name Tsez derives from the indigenous self-designation cez or cezi, while the alternative Dido is the Georgian designation. The traditional lands of the Tsez are more or less coterminous with the Tsunta district (cuntinskij rajon) in Daghestan, excluding the Bezhta division (bežtinskij učastok), inhabited by speakers of Bezhta and Hunzib, and the village of Genukh, where speakers of Hinuq live."
- "[…]during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a change of character seems to take place at about the time that the Georgians became Victorians."
- "Such, I think, was the predicament in which the young Georgians found themselves about the year 1910. Many of them—I am thinking of Mr. Forster and Mr. Lawrence in particular—spoilt their early work because, instead of throwing away those tools, they tried to use them. They tried to compromise."
- "That search for autonomy links Edwardian literature with Modernism and with the post-Edwardian Georgians (so called after King George V)."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒən/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒɔːd͡ʒən/