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Deià

Deià proper noun: a small coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands.

Proper noun

Deià

  1. A small coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands.
    • By 1929, when the British writer Robert Graves and the American poet Laura Riding arrived in the nearby village of Deià — at the recommendation of the American writer Gertrude Stein — and later built a home there, that picturesque hamlet of stone houses and olive groves was already a fledgling...2023 August 25, Gisela Williams, Richard Pedaline, “A Local’s Guide to Majorca”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of Deià

Borrowed from Catalan Deià.

Questions about Deià

What does Deià mean?
Deià means a small coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands.
What part of speech is Deià?
Deià is a proper noun.

Words near Deià in the dictionary

  1. Deitzels
  2. Deitzes
  3. deixes
  4. deixis
  5. deization
  6. Deià
  7. DEJ
  8. Deja Newser
  9. Deja Newsers
  10. deja vu
  11. deja vus

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