Georgian

1. The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

plural Georgians

1. A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
2. A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.

   Trump attorney Lin Wood, a favorite of the QAnon crowd, is advising Georgians not to vote for Perdue and Loeffler.

   2020 December 29, Frida Ghitis, “Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022

   Synonyms: Iberian, Kartvelian, goober, goober-grabbler

1. not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.

   As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.

   2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2016

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   The name Tsez derives from the indigenous self-designation cez or cezi, while the alternative Dido is the Georgian designation. The traditional lands of the Tsez are more or less coterminous with the Tsunta district (cuntinskij rajon) in Daghestan, excluding the Bezhta division (bežtinskij učastok), inhabited by speakers of Bezhta and Hunzib, and the village of Genukh, where speakers of Hinuq live.

   2013 December 28, Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, “Tsez”, in University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Maryland, College Park, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2021, page 1

2. not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to the U.S. state of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.

plural Georgians · alternative Georgean

1. A British citizen during the reign of a king named George.
   1. historicalA British citizen during the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).

      […]during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a change of character seems to take place at about the time that the Georgians became Victorians.

      1972, Books and Bookmen

   2. historicalrareA British citizen during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936), especially a member of the Georgian Poetry movement or other artistic movements of the era.

      That search for autonomy links Edwardian literature with Modernism and with the post-Edwardian Georgians (so called after King George V).

      2004, Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83

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      Such, I think, was the predicament in which the young Georgians found themselves about the year 1910. Many of them—I am thinking of Mr. Forster and Mr. Lawrence in particular—spoilt their early work because, instead of throwing away those tools, they tried to use them. They tried to compromise.

      1924, Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”, in [Leonard Woolf], editor, Collected Essays, volume I, London: Hogarth Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 333

comparative more Georgian · superlative most Georgian · alternative Georgean

1. Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).
2. communicationsPertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936).

   Georgian Poetry

3. architectureOf or relating to an architectural style of the period, marked by symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
4. Pertaining to or characteristic of German poet Stefan George (1868–1933).

   Another example of this sterile Georgian orthodoxy is to be found in the case of Ernst Morwitz […]

   2005, Ernst Osterkamp, “The Legacy of the George Circle”, in Exile, Science and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals, page 23

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   The same Georgian persona, leonine and sacerdotal (that of the aristocratic priest) appears throughout the reminiscences of all his disciples.

   2001, Martin Travers, Critics of Modernity: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1890–1933, page 82

   Kantorowicz […] warns against confusing a Georgian aesthetic “secret Germany,” which still slumbered in concealment, with contemporary, ‘awakened’ Nazi Germany.

   2012, Paul Fleming, “Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz”, in “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933, page 227

5. Of or pertaining to Saint George.