Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Cymry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Cymry and their kindred, the Cornishmen and Bretons.
- noun The language of the Cymry, or of the Cymric division of the Celtic race of Britain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Welsh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun rare The
Welsh language. - noun rare A member or descendant of the people of Wales
- noun A
breed ofdomestic cat , developed inCanada , principally characterized by suppression of thetail and by a semi-long-hairedcoat , with a medium-sized, rounded,cobby body; it is the longhair version of theManx cat . - noun A
cat of this breed. - adjective Of or pertaining to the
Cymry , the native people ofWales . - adjective rare Of or pertaining to Wales or the
Welsh language. - adjective Of or pertaining to the Cymric cat breed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Celtic language of Wales
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Cymric was the thirty-seventh passenger liner sunk by U-boats since the loss of Lusitania and the fourth passenger liner sunk during the second offensive.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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They frowned upon the idea of Cymric Land becoming rich by mining, and smelting, and selling iron.
Welsh Fairy Tales William Elliot Griffis 1885
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Thus the "Cymric" carried a brigade division of artillery, 18 guns, 36 wagons, 351 officers and men, 430 horses, with all the ammunition and impedimenta, besides a battalion of infantry; in all nearly 1,600 men.
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At one time, the Welsh-speaking area of Britain extended as far north as Catterick, before territorial defeat pushed the language into the Cymric peninsula.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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At one time, the Welsh-speaking area of Britain extended as far north as Catterick, before territorial defeat pushed the language into the Cymric peninsula.
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These men were of the last Celtic race to invade the Isles and their barbaric civilization was of much higher order than that of their Cymric kin.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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"And so these Cymric Britons face Rome," said Bran.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The last of these was the 13,370-ton liner Cymric, bound for America and torpedoed without warning off the Irish coast with the loss of five lives.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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The captain of the U-boat that sank the Cymric was Walther Schwieger, who had torpedoed Lusitania and Hesperian.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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The Cymric tribes of Britain were a mixed Nordic-Cimmerian race which preceded the purely Nordic Britons into the isles, and thus gave rise to a legend of Gaelic priority.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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