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Cilician

UK/sɪˈlɪsɪən/

Cilician adjective: pertaining to or originating from Cilicia.

Adjective

Cilician (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Pertaining to or originating from Cilicia.
    • The purple Hyacinths, and fresh Costmarie, / And Saffron, sought for in Cilician soyle1591, “Virgils Gnat”, in Edmund Spenser, transl., Complaints, translation of Culex by Virgil

Noun

Cilician (plural Cilicians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.

Cilician meaning in Bengali

Cilician in Bengali

বাসিন্দা

Forms of Cilician

pluralCilicians

Origin of Cilician

From Cilicia + -an.

Words formed from Cilician

Phrases with Cilician

Questions about Cilician

What does Cilician mean?
Cilician means pertaining to or originating from Cilicia.
What is Cilician in Bengali?
Cilician in Bengali is বাসিন্দা. See Cilician meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Cilician?
Cilician can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Cilician?
Cilician is pronounced /sɪˈlɪsɪən/ (UK).

Words near Cilician in the dictionary

  1. Cilibertos
  2. Cilibia
  3. cilice
  4. cilices
  5. Cilicia
  6. Cilician
  7. Cilician Armenia
  8. Cilician Armenian
  9. Cilician Gates
  10. Cilicians
  11. cilicious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cilician (page history and authors); Cilician (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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