Galloway
Americannoun
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a historic region in SW Scotland.
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one of a Scottish breed of beef cattle having a coat of curly, black hair.
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one of a Scottish breed of small, strong horses.
noun
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an area of SW Scotland, on the Solway Firth: consists of the former counties of Kirkcudbright and Wigtown, now part of Dumfries and Galloway; in the west is a large peninsula, the Rhinns of Galloway, with the Mull of Galloway, a promontory, at the south end of it (the southernmost point of Scotland)
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a breed of hardy beef cattle, usually black, originally bred in Galloway
Example Sentences
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Co-founders Conner Galloway and Alexander Valys met in 2004 as undergraduate roommates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Galloway and Valys returned to the idea around 2020 when it appeared that interest in the technology and demand for electricity was rising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Over time, blacksmithing gave way to the more lucrative marriage business with about 18% of all Scotland's weddings taking place in Dumfries and Galloway - the majority at Gretna Green.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Libyan Al-Marimi, also known as Masud, has denied making and priming the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Dumfries and Galloway on 21 December 1988.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The calamity wreaked by the De Soto expedition, Ramenofsky and Galloway argued, extended across the whole Southeast.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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