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

  • adjective Of or relating to Belgium or its people or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Belgium.
  • noun A person of Belgian ancestry.
  • noun A draft horse of a large breed developed in Belgium that is usually chestnut or sorrel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to Belgium, a small country of Europe, between France and Germany, formerly part of the Netherlands, erected into an independent kingdom in 1830–31.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of the kingdom of Belgium.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Belgium.

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

  • noun A person from Belgium or of Belgian descent.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Belgium or the Belgian people.
  • proper noun linguistics A hypothetical extinct Indo-European language, supposed to have been spoken distinct from Celtic in late prehistory, in certain parts of what has become known as Gaul.

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

  • noun a native or inhabitant of Belgium
  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people

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