Georgian
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of or relating to the period of British history from the accession of George I in 1714 to the death of George IV in 1830, or the four kings named George who reigned successively during this period.
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of or relating to the period of the reign of George V (1910–36) or to George V himself.
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of, noting, or designating the styles of architecture, furniture, and crafts current in England especially from 1714 to 1811.
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of or relating to the state of Georgia in the United States.
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of or relating to the Georgian Republic or its language.
noun
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a person, especially a writer, of either of the Georgian periods in England.
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the styles or character of either of the Georgian periods.
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a native or inhabitant of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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a native or inhabitant of the Georgian Republic.
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the most widely spoken South Caucasian language, spoken principally in the Georgian Republic, and written in a distinctive alphabetic script dating back to the 9th century.
adjective
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of, characteristic of, or relating to any or all of the four kings who ruled Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1830, or to their reigns
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of or relating to George V of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or his reign (1910–36)
the Georgian poets
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of or relating to the republic of Georgia, its people, or their language
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of or relating to the American State of Georgia or its inhabitants
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in or imitative of the style prevalent in England during the 18th century (reigns of George I, II, and III); in architecture, dominated by the ideas of Palladio, and in furniture represented typically by the designs of Sheraton
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the official language of Georgia, belonging to the South Caucasian family
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a native or inhabitant of Georgia
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an aboriginal inhabitant of the Caucasus
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a native or inhabitant of the American State of Georgia
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a person belonging to or imitating the styles of either of the Georgian periods in England
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The Georgian center declined a $2.8-million player option to become an unrestricted free agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday that authorities have detained a suspect who used a Georgian passport and are “working to establish the mastermind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The Portrait Gallery is a Georgian rogue’s gallery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Seven Georgian nationals will be tried in Paris starting Tuesday for the theft of rare editions of Russian literary classics from prestigious French libraries, including works by Alexander Pushkin.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
There were the Georgian maps I’d had framed, the Persian rugs, and the overstuffed leather armchair I liked to sink into at the end of the day.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
What health, wealth and opportunity means to me is the fact that Georgians want us to focus on the issues that matter.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026
“We’re asking all Georgians to do your part in preventing the spread of wildfires as response teams work around the clock to contain those currently blazing,” Gov. Brian Kemp said on social media Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
One of those Georgians is Acosta, a 49-year-old single mother of three teenagers, one of whom has Type 1 diabetes and requires daily medication.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
But in the early republic, the federal forces to enforce the treaty against westward-migrating Georgians simply didn’t exist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
We lived below what Georgians called the gnat line, meaning all the gnats in the world lived in town with us.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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