Definition of Corsican

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Corsica or its people.

Partainyms: Corsica
Derivative terms: Corsica, Corsica

Definition of Corsican

1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Corsica, the Corsican people or the Corsican language. ¹

2. Noun. A person from Corsica or of Corsican descent. ¹

3. Proper noun. The language of the Corsican people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corsican

Corregidor
Correra's line
Correus
Corrie
Corriedale
Corrigan's pulse
Corrigan's sign
Corrine
Corrodentia
Corrèze
Corsac fox
Corsac foxes
Corse
Corsica
Corsican (current term)
Corsican Army
Corsicans
Cortaderia
Cortaderia richardii
Cortaderia selloana
Cortef
Cortes
Cortez
Corti's arch
Corti's auditory teeth
Corti's canal
Corti's cells
Corti's ganglion
Corti's membrane

Literary usage of Corsican

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

1. The Growth of Napoleon: A Study in Environment by Norwood Young (1910)
"The rest of the Corsican army dispersed, crying out that they had been betrayed, and refused to fight more. Thus, owing to a mistaken order, given it is not ..."

2. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Milligan Sloane (1910)
"Zr. 22-23] THE Corsican JACOBIN determined to stand for one of the higher ... There were now two political dubs in Ajaccio: that of the Corsican Jacobins, ..."

3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"No one but a Corsican would have noticed that in the square around the green oak only women were to be seen. At supper time Colomba joyfully showed her ..."

4. Corsica: Picturesque, Historical, and Social: with a Sketch of the Early by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1855)
"CHAPTER I. VESCOVATO AND THE Corsican HISTORIANS. SOME miles to the southward of Bastia, on the heights of the eastern coast, lies the so much renowned town ..."

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