Definition of Galwegian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Scottish district of Galloway or its people.

Partainyms: Galloway
Derivative terms: Galloway

Definition of Galwegian

1. Adjective. Pertaining to Galloway, Scotland or to its historic people, language and culture. ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to Galway, Ireland, or to its residents. ¹

3. Noun. Someone from Galway or Galloway. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galwegian

Galsworthy
Galton
Galton's delta
Galton's law
Galtonia candicans
Galtonian-Fisher genetics
Galvani
Galveston
Galveston Bay
Galveston Island
Galway
Galway Bay
Galway hooker
Galway hookers
Galwegian (current term)
Galwegians
Galápagos Islands
Galápagos hawk
Galápagos hawks
Galápagos sea lion
Galápagos sea lions
Gamay
Gambel's quail
Gambelia
Gambia
Gambian
Gambian fever
Gambian monetary unit

Literary usage of Galwegian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"... of a gentleman with a fine old Galwegian name, the tribulations of the ... of the gentleman with the fine old Galwegian name, ' and a holy Roman too, ..."

2. Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American by William Henry Hurlbert (1888)
"This tallies with what I heard at Gweedore from my Galwegian acquaintance. ... My Galwegian thought this reasonable, because in this region the rent, ..."

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