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Leonese

Leonese adjective: of, from or relating to the city of León or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.

Adjective

Leonese (comparative more Leonese, superlative most Leonese)

  1. Of, from or relating to the city of León or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
    • Or, as I was told, “Nos sentimos más leoneses, pero somos gallegos iguales” (We feel more Leonese, but we are also equally Galician).1998, José Antonio Fernández de Rota Monter, “Difference from the People’s Point of View”, in Carol J[ane] Greenhouse, Roshanak Kheshti, editors, Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in...
  2. From, or pertaining to the Kingdom of León, a former independent kingdom in the northwest of Iberia.

Proper noun

Leonese

  1. A Romance language spoken in the northwest of Spain, closely related to Asturian and Mirandese.

Noun

Leonese (plural Leonese)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the city of León or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
    • In addition to these men, there are at least two Leonese: Pedro Garcés from Matanza (near Astorga) and Domingo Rodríguez from Castroverde (unless this refers to Castroverde de Cerrato in the modern province of Valladolid); and two Galicians: […]2005, Simon Barton, “From Mercenary to Crusader: The Career of Álvar Pérez de Castro (d. 1239) Re-examined”, in Therese Martin, Julie Harris, editors, Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on...

Forms of Leonese

Adjective
comparativemore Leonese
superlativemost Leonese
alternative formLeónese
Noun
pluralLeonese

Origin of Leonese

From Leon + -ese. Compare Spanish leonés.

Phrases with Leonese

Questions about Leonese

What does Leonese mean?
Leonese means of, from or relating to the city of León or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
What part of speech is Leonese?
Leonese can be an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Leonese in the dictionary

  1. leoncitos
  2. Leondoni
  3. Leondre
  4. leone
  5. leones
  6. Leonese
  7. Leonesism
  8. Leonesisms
  9. Leonetti
  10. Leonettis
  11. Leong

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