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WELSH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales

Synonyms:

Welsh; Welsh Black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Welsh" is a kind of...):

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Celtic language of Wales

Synonyms:

Cymric; Welsh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Welsh" is a kind of...):

Brittanic; Brythonic (a southern group of Celtic languages)

Domain region:

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Welsh (of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A native or resident of Wales

Synonyms:

Cambrian; Cymry; Welsh; Welshman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Welsh" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Welsh" is a member of...):

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Welsh (of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language

Example:

Welsh syntax

Synonyms:

Cambrian; Welsh

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Welsh (a Celtic language of Wales)

Welsh (a native or resident of Wales)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt

Synonyms:

welch; welsh

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "welsh" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

welsher (someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Rachel—who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament—had a sharp touch of brain-fever, and goes about the house now—or did until yesterday—like a black-eyed shadow of her former self.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So long as knight and baron were a strength and a guard to the kingdom they might be endured, but now, when all men knew that the great battles in France had been won by English yeomen and Welsh stabbers, warlike fame, the only fame to which his class had ever aspired, appeared to have deserted the plate-clad horsemen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the Wrekin in the Welsh marches to the Cotswolds in the west or Butser in the south, there was no hill-top from which the peasant might not have seen the bright shimmer of arms, the toss and flutter of plume and of pensil.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No clang of bugle rose from their stern ranks, but in the centre waved the leopards of England, on the right the ensign of their Company with the roses of Loring, and on the left, over three score of Welsh bowmen, there floated the red banner of Merlin with the boars'-heads of the Buttesthorns.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here also were the valiant Earl of Angus, Sir Thomas Banaster with his garter over his greave, Sir Nele Loring, second cousin to Sir Nigel, and a long column of Welsh footmen who marched under the red banner of Merlin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)