Deià

proper noun

A small coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A small coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands.
    1 more example

    By 1929, when the British writer Robert Graves and the American poet Laura Riding arrived in the nearby village of Deià — at the recommendation of the American writer Gertrude Stein — and later built a home there, that picturesque hamlet of stone houses and olive groves was already a fledgling artists’ colony.

    2023 August 25, Gisela Williams, Richard Pedaline, “A Local’s Guide to Majorca”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin

  1. CatalanDeià
  2. EnglishDeià

Borrowed from Catalan Deià.

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APA

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MLA

“Deià.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dei%C3%A0. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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