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

  • adjective Of or relating to Catalonia or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Catalonia.
  • noun A person of Catalan ancestry.
  • noun The Romance language spoken especially in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, and the Roussillon region of France.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Catalonia, a former province of Spain (now a geographical division comprising several provinces), or to its inhabitants or language.
  • noun A native of Catalonia, Spain; especially, one belonging to the indigenous race or people of Catalonia, wherever found, as distinguished from other Spaniards.
  • noun The language of Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearicisles.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Catalonia.
  • adjective (Metal.) a kind of furnace for producing wrought iron directly from the ore. It was formerly much used, esp. in Catalonia, and is still used in some parts of the United States and elsewhere.

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

  • noun Person from or inhabitant of Catalonia.
  • proper noun The language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain. Various dialects are also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region where the language is officially named valencià, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France and the Sardinian city of Alghero. ISO 639-3 recognizes Valencian as an alternate name for this language.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Catalonia.

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

  • adjective relating to or characteristic of the Catalan language
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Catalonia
  • noun the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan)
  • adjective relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English Catalane, possibly from Catalan catalana, from Catalunya, Catalonia.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Middle English Catalane, from Catalan català, either directly or via French catalan or Spanish catalán, from the indigenous name, which is of Celtic origin and probably means "chiefs of battle."

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