Orcadian

comparative more Orcadian · superlative most Orcadian

1. Of or relating to the Orkney Islands.

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   Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the late Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown wrote. “The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.”

   2025, Peter Ross, “Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland’s Stone Age Settlements. In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries”, in Smithsonian, volume 55, number 7: January/February

   Synonyms: Orkneyan

plural Orcadians

1. Someone from the Orkney Islands.

   Synonyms: Orkneyan