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cisleithan

cisleithan adjective: on the nearer (or western) side of the Leitha river.

Adjective (1)

cisleithan (not comparable)

  1. On the nearer (or western) side of the Leitha river

Adjective (2) capitalized: Cisleithan

Cisleithan (not comparable)

  1. (historical) On the western side of the river Leitha; Austrian (usually in contexts related to Austria-Hungary).
    Synonyms:
    Cisleithanian

Synonyms of cisleithan

Forms of cisleithan

alternative formCisleithan
alternative formcisleithan

Origin of cisleithan

From cis- + Leithan.

From cis- + Leitha + -an.

Words formed from cisleithan

Questions about cisleithan

What does cisleithan mean?
Cisleithan means on the nearer (or western) side of the Leitha river.
What part of speech is cisleithan?
Cisleithan is an adjective.

Words near cisleithan in the dictionary

  1. cislated
  2. cislates
  3. cislating
  4. cislation
  5. cislations
  6. cisleithan
  7. Cisleithania
  8. Cisleithanian
  9. Cisler
  10. Cislers
  11. cislesbian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cisleithan (page history and authors); Cisleithan (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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