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gentilic

/d͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪk/US/d͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪk/

gentilic adjective: tribal or national.

Adjective

gentilic (not comparable)

  1. Tribal or national.
  2. Describing the inhabitants of a particular place; demonymic.

Noun

gentilic (plural gentilics)

  1. A personal name derived from a place name.
    • Vito Corleone? What kind of name is Corleone? A gentilic?
  2. A demonym.

gentilic meaning in Bengali

gentilic in Bengali

উপজাতীয়, জাতীয়, ডেমনোমিক, ডেমনোম

Forms of gentilic

pluralgentilics

Origin of gentilic

From Latin gentilis (“of a clan or gens”) + English suffix -ic.

Questions about gentilic

What does gentilic mean?
Gentilic means tribal or national.
What is gentilic in Bengali?
Gentilic in Bengali is উপজাতীয়, জাতীয়, ডেমনোমিক. See Gentilic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is gentilic?
Gentilic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce gentilic?
Gentilic is pronounced /d͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪk/ (UK).

Words near gentilic in the dictionary

  1. gentiledom
  2. gentiles
  3. gentilesse
  4. gentilhomme
  5. gentilhommes
  6. gentilic
  7. gentilicia
  8. gentilicial
  9. gentilicials
  10. gentilician
  11. gentilicians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gentilic (page history and authors); gentilic (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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