Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Sardinia or its people, language, or culture.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Sardinia.
- noun The Romance language of the Sardinians.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Sardinia.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of the island of Sardinia, lying west of Italy; or the kingdom of Sardinia, constituted in 1720, and comprising as its principal parts Savoy, Piedmont, and the island of Sardinia: it was the nucleus of the modern kingdom of Italy.
- noun [lowercase] In mineralogy, the lead sulphate anglesite, which occurs abundantly in lead-mines in the island of Sardinia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun
Romance language spoken in the Italian region of Sardinia. - adjective Of, or relating to Sardinia or its people or culture.
- noun A person from Sardinia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Sardinia or its people or its language
- noun a native or inhabitant of Sardinia
Etymologies
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Examples
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Based on an autobiographical book by Gavino Ledda, Padre Padrone is filmed in Sardinian, a regional Italian dialect.
An Experiment for Fake Memoirs - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Canada -- Explosion on board the "Sardinian" -- Child life in the Galt
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe
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And the Phocaians also manned their vessels, sixty in number, and came to meet the enemy in that which is called the Sardinian sea: and when they encountered one another in the sea-fight the Phocaians won a kind of Cadmean victory, for forty of their ships were destroyed and the remaining twenty were disabled, having had their prows bent aside.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Cavour charged Austria with a breach of international law and recalled the Sardinian minister from Vienna.
Cavour Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn 1898
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And the Phocaians also manned their vessels, sixty in number, and came to meet the enemy in that which is called the Sardinian sea: and when they encountered one another in the sea-fight the Phocaians won a kind of Cadmean victory, for forty of their ships were destroyed and the remaining twenty were disabled, having had their prows bent aside.
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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Two cheeses, actually: a soft brie and a Casu Marzu - also known as Sardinian maggot cheese for the larvae whose nonstop noshing brings this formaggio to an advanced state of fermentation.
Paramus Post 2009
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Two cheeses, actually: a soft brie and a Casu Marzu - also known as Sardinian maggot cheese for the larvae whose nonstop noshing brings this formaggio to an advanced state of fermentation.
Paramus Post 2009
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If catching one's food is appealing, operators such as Sardinian Fishing, based in Cannigione, just north of the Costa Smeralda, will take those interested in deep-sea fishing out to see what's biting throughout the autumn. (www. sardiniafishing.it)
The Subdued Side of Sardinia Cristina Slattery 2010
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Canada with Miss Macpherson, and the thought most on her mind in recollection of the scene on the "Sardinian" was "_given back_."
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe
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_ Shaking our captain's hand with a grateful heart for all his kindness to us and ours, in a few minutes steam was up, and the 'Sardinian' on her way to Montreal.
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe
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