sicilian
/sɪˈsɪliən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A sub-age from 0.781 to 0.26 million years ago, a subdivision of the Pleistocene.
noun
A native or inhabitant of Sicily, Italy.
noun
Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.
Example Sentences
- "Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?"
- "The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as the Sicilians called the royal troops, were [...]"
- "Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly."
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