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

  • adjective Of or relating to Hungary or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Hungary.
  • noun A person of Hungarian ancestry.
  • noun The Finno-Ugric language of the Magyars that is the official language of Hungary.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to Hungary, a country and kingdom in central Europe, in the valley of the middle Danube, or to its inhabitants; Magyar.
  • Freebooting; thievish; begging. “In a cant use found in old plays, the word apparently contains a double allusion to the freebooters of Hungary, that once infested the continent of Europe, and to the word hungry.
  • noun A native of Hungary, or a member of the Hungarian race; a Magyar. See Magyar.
  • noun A freebooter; a thievish beggar.
  • noun The language spoken by the Hungarians, belonging to the Finnic family of languages; Magyar.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary.
  • adjective See Italian millet, under Millet.

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

  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity.
  • noun A person from present-day Hungary or of ethnic Hungarian descent.
  • noun A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.
  • proper noun The main language of Hungary.
  • proper noun uncountable, computing, informal Hungarian notation.

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

  • adjective relating to or characteristic of Hungary
  • noun the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Hungary

Etymologies

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Hungary +‎ -an

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