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Definition of Belgian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people. "The Belgian Queen"
2. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Belgium.
Generic synonyms: European
Specialized synonyms: Fleming, Walloon
Definition of Belgian
1. a. Of or pertaining to Belgium.
2. a. Of or pertaining to Belgium.
Definition of Belgian
1. Noun. A person from Belgium or of Belgian descent. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Belgium or the Belgian people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belgian
Literary usage of Belgian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"It alleges first that the depressed condition of belgian industry could not offer
to unemployed belgians any means of working, or, at least, ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"1800-14] The belgian departments. •port. Outwardly the Grand Duchy is a little
German State, governed a constitutional system by an elderly German ..."
3. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1917)
"THE belgian PROBLEM Recognizing the growing superiority of Germany in numbers,
France had sought to meet this by the erection on her eastern frontier of a ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1848)
"belgian COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. The belgian consul at New York gives notice that
the belgian government has suspended, until the 1st of January, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"Then again the belgian Hare foster-mother had not ovulated when the operation
was performed ; ovulation in the rabbit does not take place until about ten ..."
6. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"When the belgian Government learned of the declaration of \ustria on Servia, ...
In ;- measure should not be misconstrued the belgian Ministers accredited ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"The Charity Department of the trains in the country are now running on pre-war
belgian Bureau relieves the sick and destitute and schedule and the bridges ..."