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Syracusan

Syracusan adjective: of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.

Adjective

Syracusan (not comparable)

  1. Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
    • The Syracusan expedition was the deathblow of the Athenian Empire.1921, John Buchan, chapter XL, in A History of the Great War, volume II, London; Edinburgh; New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., page 344
  2. Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, New York, United States.

Noun

Syracusan (plural Syracusans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
    • Dionysius...obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins.1875, William Stanley Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange, New York: D. Appleton and Company
  2. A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, New York, United States.

Forms of Syracusan

pluralSyracusans

Origin of Syracusan

From Syracuse + -an.

Questions about Syracusan

What does Syracusan mean?
Syracusan means of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
What part of speech is Syracusan?
Syracusan can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Syracusan in the dictionary

  1. SYPs
  2. Syr
  3. Syr Dar'ya
  4. Syr Darya
  5. Syra
  6. Syracusan
  7. Syracusans
  8. Syracuse
  9. Syracuses
  10. Syracusian
  11. Syracusians

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