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Sicilian

/sɪˈsɪliən/

Sicilian adjective: of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.

Adjective

Sicilian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.
    • Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2026

Proper noun

Sicilian

  1. The language of Sicily.
  2. A sub-age from 0.781 to 0.26 million years ago, a subdivision of the Pleistocene.

Noun

Sicilian (plural Sicilians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Sicily, Italy.
    • The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as the Sicilians called the royal troops, were [...]1861, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 75, page 553
  2. Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.
    • Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly.2009, Reg Keeland, translator, The Girl Who Played with Fire (translation of, 2006 (publication date), Stieg Larsson, Flickan som lekte med elden), Knopf, chapter 9, page 129

Sicilian meaning in Arabic and Persian

Sicilian in Arabic

relating to Sicily or its inhabitants
صِقِلِّيّ ṣiqilliyy
language
الصقلية
person
صِقِلِّية ṣiqilliya, صِقِلِّيّ ṣiqilliyy

Sicilian in Persian

relating to Sicily or its inhabitants
سیسیلی sisili
language
سیسیلی sisili
person
سیسیلی sisili

Forms of Sicilian

pluralSicilians

Origin of Sicilian

From Latin Sicilia + -an. By surface analysis, Sicily + -an.

Words formed from Sicilian

Phrases with Sicilian

Questions about Sicilian

What does Sicilian mean?
Sicilian means of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.
What is Sicilian in Arabic?
Sicilian in Arabic is صِقِلِّيّ (ṣiqilliyy), الصقلية, صِقِلِّية (ṣiqilliya). See Sicilian meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Sicilian?
Sicilian can be an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Sicilian?
Sicilian is pronounced /sɪˈsɪliən/.

Words near Sicilian in the dictionary

  1. Sichuan tit
  2. Sichuan tits
  3. Sichuan Yi
  4. Sichuanese
  5. Sicilia
  6. Sicilian
  7. Sicilian code
  8. Sicilian codes
  9. Sicilian Defence
  10. Sicilian Defense
  11. Sicilian Italian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sicilian (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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