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Georgian

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English

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WOTD – 26 June 2017
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Georgia +‎ -n.

Proper noun

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Georgian

Fresco of Queen Tamar, a Georgian woman – that is, a woman from the country of Georgia (etymology 1)
  2. The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
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  • (language of Georgia): Tush
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Noun

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Georgian (plural Georgians)

  1. A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
  2. A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.
    • 2020 December 29, Frida Ghitis, “Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia”, in CNN‎[1], archived from the original on 3 October 2022:
      Trump attorney Lin Wood, a favorite of the QAnon crowd, is advising Georgians not to vote for Perdue and Loeffler.
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  • (native or resident of the US state of Georgia): American
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Adjective

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Georgian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
    • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎[2], archived from the original on 10 June 2016:
      As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.
  2. Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. State of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.
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Etymology 2

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The Circus in Bath, England is an example of Georgian architecture – that is, built during the reign of George II of Great Britain (etymology 2)

From George +‎ -ian.

Noun

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Georgian (plural Georgians)

  1. (historical) A British citizen during the reign of a king named George.
    • 1924, Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”, in [Leonard Woolf], editor, Collected Essays, volume I, London: Hogarth Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 333:
      Such, I think, was the predicament in which the young Georgians found themselves about the year 1910. Many of them—I am thinking of Mr. Forster and Mr. Lawrence in particular—spoilt their early work because, instead of throwing away those tools, they tried to use them. They tried to compromise.

Adjective

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Georgian (comparative more Georgian, superlative most Georgian)

  1. Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).
  2. (poetry) Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936).
    Georgian Poetry
  3. (architecture) Of or relating to an architectural style of the period, marked by symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
  4. Pertaining to or characteristic of German poet Stefan George (1868–1933).
    • 2001, Martin Travers, Critics of Modernity: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1890–1933, page 82:
      The same Georgian persona, leonine and sacerdotal (that of the aristocratic priest) appears throughout the reminiscences of all his disciples.
    • 2005, Ernst Osterkamp, “The Legacy of the George Circle”, in Exile, Science and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals, page 23:
      Another example of this sterile Georgian orthodoxy is to be found in the case of Ernst Morwitz […]
    • 2012, Paul Fleming, “Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz”, in “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933, page 227:
      Kantorowicz […] warns against confusing a Georgian aesthetic “secret Germany,” which still slumbered in concealment, with contemporary, ‘awakened’ Nazi Germany.
  5. Of or pertaining to Saint George.
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Further reading

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Georgian edition of Wiktionary

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Finnish

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Proper noun

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Georgian

  1. genitive singular of Georgia
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