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Definition of Sicilian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sicily or the people of Sicily. "The Sicilian Mafia"

Definition of Sicilian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.

2. n. A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

Definition of Sicilian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Sicily or its inhabitants. ¹

2. Proper noun. The language of Sicily. ¹

3. Noun. A native of Sicily. ¹

4. Noun. Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sicilian

Literary usage of Sicilian

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

1. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth Meyer Setton (1976)
"THE sicilian VESPERS AND A CENTURY OF ANGEVIN DECLINE (1282-1383) ON EASTER MONDAY, 30 March, 1282, a crowd was gathering in the square by the century-old ..."

2. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth Meyer Setton (1976)
"Of the large literature on the sicilian Vespers and its consequences, ... Sicardi discusses the historical value of the sicilian literary sources in a long ..."

3. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1900)
"The greatest of the sicilian artists were Syracusan, and among the ... CONSEQUENCES OF THE sicilian CATASTROPHE sicilian policy of Athens which made her ..."

4. History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... is called sicilian." He admits this, but says it is merely Othen— due to the fact that sicilian princes, or princes resi- ..."

5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"THE sicilian EXPEDITION THE largest island in the Mediterranean, Sicily has been a stepping- stone between African, Asiatic, and European nations. ..."

6. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"No holy place in Hellas possessed diviner faces in bronze or marble than the faces which the sicilian cities circulated on their silver money. ..."

7. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"The rrJ sicilian to become the birthplace of Rhetoric. ... The flourishing age of the sicilian Th*Aff* Tyrants—the early part of the fifth century Bc— ..."

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