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Sicilians

Sicilians is the plural of Sicilian.

Meaning of Sicilian

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

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Questions about Sicilians

What is Sicilians the plural of?
Sicilians is the plural of Sicilian.

Words near Sicilians in the dictionary

  1. Sicilianizes
  2. Sicilianizing
  3. Sicilianness
  4. siciliano
  5. sicilianos
  6. Sicilians
  7. sicilici
  8. sicilicus
  9. sicilienne
  10. siciliennes
  11. Sicilies

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