Hungarian
[hʌŋ'ɡεəriən]
Definition
(noun.) the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Hungary.
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of Hungary; 'Hungarian folk music' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary.
(n.) A native or one of the people of Hungary.
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Definition
adj. pertaining to Hungary or its inhabitants.—n. a native of Hungary: the Magyar or Hungarian language.
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Examples
- He was a divisional commander and he was a Hungarian. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Unlike its three neighbours, Prussia, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs, Poland had not developed a Grand Monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then the major told the story of the eleven Czecho-slovaks and the Hungarian corporal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Alexander played some Hungarian music, and they all danced, seized by the spirit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Becky had met other Hungarian magnates with the army in France in 1816-17. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then there was Gall, the Hungarian, who ought to be shot if you could believe half you heard at Gaylord's. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But all the Hungarians had been intriguers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Germans called them Hungarians and Tartars, the French, Bohemians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Hungarians, the Germans, the Austrians, the Swiss, the English and the Americans have all invented useful forms of these rollers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Magyars, the modern Hungarians, came westward later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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