Galicians

Noun (1)

Galician (countable and uncountable, plural Galicians)

1. 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

   Synonyms:

   Galizan, Gallegan

2. (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

Noun (2)

Galician (plural Galicians)

1. 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

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