Galician

/ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən/

Galician adjective: of, from or relating to Galicia, Spain.

Adjective (1)

Galician (comparative more Galician, superlative most Galician)

Of, from or relating to Galicia, Spain.
- The subsequent oil slicks that reached the coast resulted in severe ecological and economic consequences for the Galician coast and the Bay of Biscay.2009, D. R. Green, Coastal and Marine Geospatial Technologies, page 107
- "I have been asked over by Dr. Maupuis of the Institut Métapsychique to see some of the experiments which he is conducting upon a Galician medium."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
Of or pertaining to the Galician language.
- This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi or sola and to the Galician sound in the words ola or po.2009, Eva Estebas Vilaplana, Teach yourself English pronunciation, page 18

Noun (1)

Galician (countable and uncountable, plural Galicians)

A native or inhabitant of Galicia, Spain.
- The little Galician was sitting nibbling a biscuit with a glass of red wine before him.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
- In Argentina, too, there is a community of Welsh-speakers. Similarly some Galicians, Catalans and Basques have retained their mother tongues in ways that had they remained, respectively in the United Kingdom or Spain, might have been more difficult to do.2000, Clare Mar-Molinero, The Politics of Language in the Spanish-speaking World, page 52
Synonyms:

Galizan, Gallegan
(uncountable) The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula.
- Rosalia de Castro became a crucial element in this early nationalist cultural campaign: she spoke Galician as her first language and she was literate, educated, and sympathetic to the group's progressive aims.1998, Catherine Davies, Spanish Women's Writing, 1849-1996, page 63

Adjective (2)

Galician (comparative more Galician, superlative most Galician)

Of, from or relating to Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine.
- Victor Adler was born in a small Moravian town on the Galician border.2006, Shulamit Ṿolḳov, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation, page 272

Noun (2)

Galician (plural Galicians)

A native or inhabitant of Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine.
- According to Manuilsky, some Galicians idealized the Austro-Hungarian past for the empire's promotion of national autonomy, yet the Habsburgs had discouraged Eastern Galicia's economic development, whereas the Soviet power would 'turn Lviv into one of the biggest industrial centres of Soviet...2004, Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination, page 50

Galician meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

Galician in Tamil

கலீசியம்

Galician in Tagalog

pertaining to Galicia in Iberia: Galiyego, Galyego
person(s) from Galicia, Spain: Galiyego, Galyego

Examples of Galician in a sentence

The "entierro de la sardina," the burial of the sardine, is a Galician custom popular in many villages on Ash Wednesday.1999, [1882], Emilia Pardo Bazán, translated by Walter Borenstein, The Tribune of the People, page 253:
The Portuguese claim that a Galician would never be generous, as a Portuguese would.2000, Ethnologia Europaea, 30 (2): 52:

Synonyms of Galician

Forms of Galician

Adjective
comparative	more Galician
superlative	most Galician
Noun
plural	Galicians

Origin of Galician

From Galicia (“region in northwest Spain”) + -an.

From Galicia (“region in Central Europe (Etymology 2)”) + -an.

Words formed from Galician

Old Galician-Portuguese

Phrases with Galician

Words that rhyme with Galician

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Questions about Galician

What does Galician mean?: Galician means of, from or relating to Galicia, Spain.
What is Galician in Tamil?: Galician in Tamil is கலீசியம். See Galician meaning in Tamil.
How do you use Galician in a sentence?: The "entierro de la sardina," the burial of the sardine, is a Galician custom popular in many villages on Ash Wednesday.
What part of speech is Galician?: Galician can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Galician?: Galician is pronounced /ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən/.

Words near Galician in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: Galician (page history and authors); Galician (Tamil 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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