Georgian
See also: georgian
English
WOTD – 26 June 2017
Pronunciation
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Fresco of Queen Tamar, a Georgian woman – that is, a woman from the country of Georgia (etymology 1)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔːd͡ʒən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒən/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔʊ.d͡ʒən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒoːd͡ʒən/
Audio (AU) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒən
- Hyphenation: Georg‧ian
Noun
Georgian (countable and uncountable, plural Georgians)
Synonyms
- (native or resident of the Eurasian country of Georgia): Iberian, Kartvelian
- (native or resident of the US state of Georgia): goober, goober-grabbler (dated slang)
Hypernyms
- (native or resident of the US state of Georgia): American
Hyponyms
- (language of Georgia): Tush
Translations
language of the country of Georgia
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person from the country of Georgia
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person from the U.S. State of Georgia
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Adjective
Georgian (not comparable)
- 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, 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.
- Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. State of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.
Translations
pertaining to the country, people or language of Georgia
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pertaining to the U.S. State of Georgia
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Georgian terms
- Appendix:Georgian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Georgian
Etymology 2

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)
Noun
Georgian (plural Georgians)
Adjective
Georgian (comparative more Georgian, superlative most Georgian)
- 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).
- Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910-1936).
- Pertaining to or characteristic of Stefan George (a German poet).
- 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.
Hyponyms
- Regency (as noun adjunct)
Derived terms
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