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ITALIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Romance language spoken in Italy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Italian" is a kind of...):
Latinian language; Romance; Romance language (the group of languages derived from Latin)
Domain member category:
Signora (an Italian title or form of address for a married woman)
Signorina (an Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman)
donna (an Italian woman of rank)
Domain region:
Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Italian"):
Old Italian (the Italian language up to the middle of the 16th century)
Sardinian (the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish)
Tuscan (a dialect of Italian spoken in Tuscany (especially Florence))
Derivation:
Italian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Italy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Italian" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Italian"):
Sardinian (a native or inhabitant of Sardinia)
Neapolitan (a native or inhabitant of Naples)
Milanese (a native or inhabitant of Milan)
Genoese (a native or resident of Genoa)
Florentine (a native or resident of Florence, Italy)
Samnite (an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania who clashed repeatedly with the early Romans)
Oscan (an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania)
Tuscan (a resident of Tuscany)
Sicilian (a resident of Sicily)
Venetian (a resident of Venice)
Sabine (a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC)
Roman (a resident of modern Rome)
Neopolitan (a resident of Naples)
Etruscan (a native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200 BC))
dago; ginzo; greaseball; Guinea; wop ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent)
Holonyms ("Italian" is a member of...):
Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Derivation:
Italian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language
Example:
Italian cooking
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Derivation:
Italian (the Romance language spoken in Italy)
Italian (a native or inhabitant of Italy)
Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Context examples:
I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Martin saw in every line, not the fine Italian hand, but the coarse grocer's fist, of his brother-in-law.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And I hate Italian singing.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at the cottage of her lover.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
After playing some Italian songs, Miss Bingley varied the charm by a lively Scotch air; and soon afterwards Mr. Darcy, drawing near Elizabeth, said to her: Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The Milky Way, the brilliant river of stars that has dominated the night sky and human imaginations since time immemorial, is but a faded memory to one-third of humanity and 80 percent of Americans, according to a new global atlas of light pollution produced by Italian and American scientists.
(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)
The paper, authored by the Italian MARSIS team, outlines how a bright spot was detected in radar signals about 1 mile (about 1.5 kilometers) below the surface of the ice cap in the Planum Australe region.
(Possible Subsurface Lake near Martian South Pole, NASA)
My father sent in his name, and there we sat, looking at the white Italian statuettes in the corners, and the picture of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples which hung over the harpsichord.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, of course, it is Italian!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
