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Georgian

Syllables: Georg·ianUK/ˈd͡ʒɔːd͡ʒən/US/ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒən/

Georgian proper noun: the language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

georgian: the language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia
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Proper noun

Georgian

  1. The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Noun (1)

Georgian (plural Georgians)

  1. A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
  2. A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.
    • Trump attorney Lin Wood, a favorite of the QAnon crowd, is advising Georgians not to vote for Perdue and Loeffler.2020 December 29, Frida Ghitis, “Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022

Adjective (1)

Georgian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
    • As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2016
    • The name Tsez derives from the indigenous self-designation cez or cezi, while the alternative Dido is the Georgian designation. The traditional lands of the Tsez are more or less coterminous with the Tsunta district (cuntinskij rajon) in Daghestan, excluding the Bezhta division (bežtinskij...2013 December, Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, “Tsez”, in University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Maryland, College Park, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2021, page 1
  2. Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. state of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.

Noun (2)

Georgian (plural Georgians)

  1. (historical) A British citizen during the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).
    • […]during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a change of character seems to take place at about the time that the Georgians became Victorians.1972, Books and Bookmen
  2. (historical, rare) A British citizen during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936), especially a member of the Georgian Poetry movement or other artistic movements of the era.
    • Such, I think, was the predicament in which the young Georgians found themselves about the year 1910. Many of them—I am thinking of Mr. Forster and Mr. Lawrence in particular—spoilt their early work because, instead of throwing away those tools, they tried to use them. They tried to compromise.1924, Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”, in [Leonard Woolf], editor, Collected Essays, volume I, London: Hogarth Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 333
    • That search for autonomy links Edwardian literature with Modernism and with the post-Edwardian Georgians (so called after King George V).2004, Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83

Adjective (2)

Georgian (comparative more Georgian, superlative most Georgian)

  1. Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).
  2. Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936).
    • Georgian Poetry
  3. Of or relating to an architectural style of the period, marked by symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
  4. Pertaining to or characteristic of German poet Stefan George (1868–1933).
    • The same Georgian persona, leonine and sacerdotal (that of the aristocratic priest) appears throughout the reminiscences of all his disciples.2001, Martin Travers, Critics of Modernity: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1890–1933, page 82
    • Another example of this sterile Georgian orthodoxy is to be found in the case of Ernst Morwitz […]2005, Ernst Osterkamp, “The Legacy of the George Circle”, in Exile, Science and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals, page 23
  5. Of or pertaining to Saint George.

Georgian meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

Georgian in Hindi

language of the country of Georgia
जॉर्जियाई jŏrjiyāī
person from the country of Georgia
जॉर्जियाई jŏrjiyāī
pertaining to the country, people or language of Georgia
जॉर्जियाई jŏrjiyāī

Georgian in Urdu

person from the country of Georgia
جارجیائی jārjiyā'ī
pertaining to the country, people or language of Georgia
جارجیائی jārjiyā'ī

Georgian in Bengali

pertaining to the country, people or language of Georgia
জর্জীয় jorjiẏo

Georgian in Malayalam

language of the country of Georgia
കർത്തുലി kaṟttuli
More languagesFewer languages
Georgian in Gujarati
જ્યોર્જિયન jyorjiyan
Georgian in Pashto
ګرجي gorǰī
Georgian in Tagalog
Heyorhiyano
Georgian in Arabic
جُورْجِيَّة jōrjiyya, جُورْجِيّ jōrjiyy
Georgian in Malay
Georgia
Georgian in Indonesian
bahasa Georgia, Georgia
Georgian in Persian
گرجی gorji
Georgian in Thai
จอร์เจีย jɔɔ-jiia
Georgian in Vietnamese
tiếng Gru-di-a, người Gru-di-a, Gru-di-a
Georgian in Myanmar
ဂျော်ဂျီယာ gyaugyiya
Dhivehi
ޖޯޖިޔާ jōjiyā

Examples of Georgian in a sentence

  • The name Tsez derives from the indigenous self-designation cez or cezi, while the alternative Dido is the Georgian designation.2013 December, Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, “Tsez”, in University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Maryland, College Park...
  • Kantorowicz […] warns against confusing a Georgian aesthetic “secret Germany,” which still slumbered in concealment, with contemporary, ‘awakened’ Nazi Germany.2012, Paul Fleming, “Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz”, in “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after...

Synonyms of Georgian

Forms of Georgian

Noun
pluralGeorgians
alternative formGeorgean
Adjective
comparativemore Georgian
superlativemost Georgian

Origin of Georgian

From Georgia + -n.

From George + -ian, possibly with influence from its Latin equivalent (as other regnal adjectives and nouns so derived), Geōrgius.

Words formed from Georgian

Phrases with Georgian

Questions about Georgian

What does Georgian mean?
Georgian means the language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
What is Georgian in Hindi?
Georgian in Hindi is जॉर्जियाई (jŏrjiyāī). See Georgian meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Georgian in a sentence?
The name Tsez derives from the indigenous self-designation cez or cezi, while the alternative Dido is the Georgian designation.
What part of speech is Georgian?
Georgian can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Georgian?
Georgian is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɔːd͡ʒən/ (UK).

Words near Georgian in the dictionary

  1. Georgia Strait
  2. Georgia Tech
  3. georgiadesite
  4. Georgiadis
  5. Georgiadises
  6. Georgian
  7. Georgian Bay
  8. Georgian Bluffs
  9. Georgian Orthodox Church
  10. Georgian planet
  11. Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Georgian (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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