hungarian
/hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.79 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity.
adj
Of or relating to Hungarian notation.
noun
A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.
Countable; Dated
Example Sentences
- "The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”."
- "I remember a conversation I had once with a friend who insisted that “nouns are declined but verbs are conjugated”; except in Hungarian you both decline and conjugate nouns, sometimes together."
- "The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian."
Etymology
From Hungary + -an.
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First Hungarian Republic
Hungarian algorithm
Hungarian brome
Hungarian bromegrass
Hungarian chamomile
Hungarian cinch
Hungarian clover
Hungarian glider