Sicilian
See also: sicilian
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪˈsɪlɪən/, /sɪˈsɪljən/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: caecilian
Derived terms
Translations
relating to Sicily or its inhabitants
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Translations
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Sicilian terms
Further reading
- ISO 639-3 code scn (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Sicilian, scn
- “Sicilian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Noun
Sicilian (plural Sicilians)
- A native of Sicily.
- Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.
- 2009, Reg Keeland, translator, The Girl Who Played with Fire (translation of, 2006 (publication date), Stieg Larsson, Flickan som lekte med elden), Knopf, →ISBN, chapter 9, page 129:
- Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly.
- 2009, Reg Keeland, translator, The Girl Who Played with Fire (translation of, 2006 (publication date), Stieg Larsson, Flickan som lekte med elden), Knopf, →ISBN, chapter 9, page 129:
Hypernyms
- (opening): the Sicilian Defence, the Sicilian Defense
Translations
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chess opening — see Sicilian Defence
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Sicilian, a. and n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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