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I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
Amy Adams

Meaning of "Sicilian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SICILIAN

Sicilian  [sɪˈsɪlɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SICILIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sicilian can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SICILIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sicilian

Sicily is an autonomous Italian island. The adjectival form Sicilian can also refer to: ▪ Sicilian language ▪ Sicilian Baroque, baroque architecture in 17th & 18th centuries on Sicily ▪ Sicilian cart, an ornate, colorful style of horse-drawn cart native to Sicily ▪ Sicilian cuisine ▪ Sicilian Defence, in chess ▪ Sicilian derby, an annual football match in Sicily ▪ Sicilian Expedition, an abortive military filibuster from Athens in 415 BCE ▪ Sicilian Fir, Abies nebrodensis, an evergreen tree native to northern Sicily ▪ Sicilian octave, an Italian verse form consisting of eight lines of eleven syllables each ▪ Sicilian people ▪ Sicilian pizza, pizza with ingredients incorporated into the dough ▪ Sicilian revolt, ▪ Sicilian School, poetry ▪ Sicilian Stage, faunal stage in Europa ▪ Sicilian Vespers, a rebellion in Sicily in 1282 ▪ Sicilian Wars, a series of wars between Carthage and Greeks ▪ The Sicilian, a novel by Mario Puzo...

Definition of Sicilian in the English dictionary

The definition of Sicilian in the dictionary is of or relating to Sicily or its inhabitants. Other definition of Sicilian is a native or inhabitant of Sicily.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SICILIAN


Australian
ɒˈstreɪlɪən
bacchanalian
ˌbækəˈneɪlɪən
caecilian
siːˈsɪlɪən
Castalian
kæˈsteɪlɪən
Chilean
ˈtʃɪlɪən
crocodilian
ˌkrɒkəˈdɪlɪən
Deucalion
djuːˈkeɪlɪən
episcopalian
ɪˌpɪskəˈpeɪlɪən
Hegelian
hɪˈɡeɪlɪən
Ilion
ˈɪlɪən
mammalian
mæˈmeɪlɪən
mandylion
mænˈdɪlɪən
Maximilian
ˌmæksɪˈmɪlɪən
Pygmalion
pɪɡˈmeɪlɪən
reptilian
rɛpˈtɪlɪən
Salian
ˈseɪlɪən
skillion
ˈskɪlɪən
vaudevillian
ˌvəʊdəˈvɪlɪən
vocalion
vəʊˈkeɪlɪən
Westphalian
wɛstˈfeɪlɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SICILIAN

Sibylline Books
sic
sic passim
sic transit gloria mundi
Sica
Sicanian
sicario
siccan
siccar
siccative
siccity
sice
sicht
Sichuan
Sicilia
Sicilian Vespers
siciliana
siciliano
sicilienne
Sicily

WORDS THAT END LIKE SICILIAN

Azilian
Basilian
bilian
Brazilian
Castilian
civilian
exilian
Ismailian
Italian
Julian
lacertilian
mongolian
perfectibilian
postexilian
pre-exilian
Quintilian
Swahilian
Vergilian
vespertilian
Virgilian

Synonyms and antonyms of Sicilian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Sicilian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SICILIAN

Find out the translation of Sicilian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Sicilian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Sicilian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

西西里岛的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

siciliano
570 millions of speakers

English

Sicilian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सिसिली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صقلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Сицилийская
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

siciliano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিসিলিয়ান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sicilien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sicilian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sizilianisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シシリーの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시실리아 섬의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sisilia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người Sicilian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிசிலியன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सिसिलियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sicilya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

siciliano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sycylijski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сицилійська
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

siciliană
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Σικελίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Siciliaanse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Sicilian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Sicilian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Sicilian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SICILIAN»

The term «Sicilian» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.389 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SICILIAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Sicilian» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Sicilian» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Sicilian

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10 QUOTES WITH «SICILIAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Sicilian.
1
Amy Adams
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
2
Lee Child
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
3
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
4
Andrew Cuomo
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
5
Domenico Dolce
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
6
Lapo Elkann
I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
7
Raymond Kelly
I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food.
8
Jen Lancaster
I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
9
Cyndi Lauper
I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
10
Al Pacino
In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SICILIAN»

Discover the use of Sicilian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Sicilian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Sicilian
A novel of explosive suspense, heroic action - and evil on an epic scale. In the hands of Mario Puzo's brilliantly sinister talent, the reader comes to know again the terrible magic of the Mafia.
Mario Puzo, 2013
2
The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
The Mafia, this book suggests, is not nearly as bizarre as all that, not nearly as remote as we might think. In fact, as Diego Gambetta's analysis unfolds, the Mafia begins to resemble any other business.
Diego Gambetta, 1996
3
The World of Sicilian Wine
The World of Sicilian Wine provides wine lovers with a comprehensive understanding of Sicilian wine, from its ancient roots to its modern evolution.
Bill Nesto, Frances Di Savino, 2013
4
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity.
John Dickie, 2007
5
The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrè
This is the first volume in a two-volume set which collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitre, a 19th-century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks alongside the Brothers Grimm.
Jack Zipes, Joseph Russo, 2009
6
Fighting the Mafia & Renewing Sicilian Culture
Growing up in an aristocratic family that seems almost to have stepped out of the pages of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Leoluca Orlando entered the law and politics in the late 1970s as one of the young idealists challenging ...
Leoluca Orlando, 2013
7
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
In the third volume of his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C.
Donald Kagan, 1991
8
Winning with the Sicilian Dragon 2
This guide to the Dragon, a variation of the Sicilian Defence in chess, offers a complete, Dragon-based repertoire for the attacking player.
Chris Ward, 2001
9
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World ...
Details are given by the Italian and Sicilian sources; but they are not consistent. The most reliable of them is Bartholomew of Neocastro, who was living at Messina at the time and took a part in the government of his city, and who, in spite of a ...
Steven Runciman, 2012
10
Sicilian Husband, Unexpected Baby
When Emma's billionaire Sicilian husband found out she was infertile, their marriage was over.
Sharon Kendrick, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SICILIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Sicilian is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Sicilian police seize £1.15bn assets from family with suspected links …
Italian police seized assets worth more than €1.6bn (£1.15bn) from five Sicilian siblings suspected of links to the island's Cosa Nostra mafia, in one of the biggest ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
Sicilian Town Tells Outsiders: Take Our Homes. Please.
One Sicilian town is making an offer that is hard to refuse: It is giving away houses. There is a catch, naturally. The properties in Gangi, a picturesque central ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
3
A Sicilian and her cell phone saving Syrians at sea
It was an early morning in the summer of 2013 when the fragile-seeming Sicilian 27-year-old took the first panicked call: hundreds of Syrians were lost in the ... «Yahoo News, May 15»
4
Sicilian court convicts 20 Somalis of migrant-trafficking
MILAN (AP) — A court in Sicily on Monday convicted 20 Somalis who had received political asylum in Italy of a role in a vast criminal organization focused on ... «Yahoo News, Apr 15»
5
Sicilian fishing boat seized off Libyan coast is recaptured
The Italian navy has recaptured a Sicilian fishing boat hours after it was seized by the Libyan coastguard up to 64km off the coast of Libya. Italian navy personnel ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
6
Mafia victims criticise Godfather tours by son of infamous Sicily boss
Italian police officers lead the Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano from a police station in Palermo when he was arrested in 2006 after 43 years on the run. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
7
Watch football players BRAWL in the tunnel of Sicilian derby …
Sicilian rivals Vittoria and Paterno were heading back to the changing rooms after the referee called a halt to the action on the pitch. Players were captured on ... «mirror.co.uk, Mar 15»
8
Sicilian mafioso to be extradited to Italy after 22 years in Britain
LONDON A convicted Sicilian mafioso who spent two decades living incognito in Britain will be extradited to Italy after a court on Friday overturned a previous ... «Reuters, Feb 15»
9
Girl, 7, killed by mud crater explosion in Sicily
MILAN—Sicilian authorities have ordered the closure of the Macalube nature reserve after a 7-year-old girl was killed in an explosion of small mud crater. «Toronto Star, Sep 14»
10
Italian police solve 105-year-old NYPD mob detective's murder
He was dispatched to Sicily in March 1909 on a special job to investigate the Sicilian Mafia's ties to its American counterpart the Black Hand, a group of thugs ... «New York Post, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sicilian [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sicilian>. Apr 2024 ».
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