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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Sicily or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Sicily.
  • noun A person of Sicilian ancestry.
  • noun The Romance language spoken by many Sicilians in daily life. Sicilian is sometimes considered a dialect of Italian.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Sicily (a large island in the Mediterranean, south of Italy, now belonging to the kingdom of Italy) or its inhabitants.
  • noun A native or a naturalised inhabitant of Sicily; specifically, a member of the indigenous Sicilian race, now a mixture of many races who in former times successively colonized parts of the island. See Siculian.
  • noun In geology, the uppermost stage of the Pliocene Tertiary in southern Europe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.
  • adjective the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to Sicily or its inhabitants.
  • proper noun The language of Sicily.
  • noun A native of Sicily.
  • noun Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Sicily or the people of Sicily
  • noun a resident of Sicily

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