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Catanian

Catanian adjective: of, from or relating to the city of Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Adjective

Catanian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from or relating to the city of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
    • Cosa Nostra members paid £33,000 for 160 deactivated weapons that experts could make lethal in moments. Last month a Catanian couple were arrested over the haul. They belong to the “Ceusi” mafia clan, a family tied to Catania’s dominant Santopaula clan.2016 July 24, Mark Townsend, “Is Cosa Nostra now selling deadly assault weapons to Islamist terrorist groups?”, in The Guardian

Noun

Catanian (plural Catanians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Forms of Catanian

pluralCatanians

Origin of Catanian

From Catania + -an.

Questions about Catanian

What does Catanian mean?
Catanian means of, from or relating to the city of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
What part of speech is Catanian?
Catanian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Catanian in the dictionary

  1. Catanduvas
  2. Catanese
  3. Cataneses
  4. Catani
  5. Catania
  6. Catanian
  7. Catanians
  8. Catanias
  9. catanionic
  10. Catano
  11. Catanos

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