Transylvanian
Americannoun
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Transylvanians
plural
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a native or inhabitant of Transylvania.
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of, relating to, or characteristic of Transylvania or its people.
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Nicholas Santiago’s projections give eerie embellishment to Stephanie Kerley Schwartz’s scenic design, so that the basic outline of Inverness Castle suggests at moments Dracula’s Transylvanian crypt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Bela Ferencz was born in the Transylvanian town of Somcuta Mare, in what was then Hungary, on March 11, 1920.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
The Transylvanian region was the Roman frontier region of Dacia at the time, and was noted for its mines.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
The pair practised together at last month's Transylvanian Open.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021
“I’ve come to suck your blood,” she says in her Transylvanian accent, but perhaps I misheard, perhaps she said, “You must be a very good sculptor.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
With regard to the younger generation, the Transylvanians are like well-bred people all the world over.
From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse
In the Hungarians, Transylvanians, and Croats, Austria has resources possessed by few other states.
From The Art of War by George Henry Mendell
Moreover, during the Thirty Years' war, and even later, a large portion of the land was in possession of the Turks and their allies, the Transylvanians, with whom the Hungarians were in sympathy.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
Meantime, while Rumania waits, regiments composed almost completely of Transylvanians have been repeatedly and of set purpose placed in the forefront of the battle, and as often annihilated.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
Bocskay, at the same time, was acknowledged as prince of Transylvania by the Austrian court, and the right of the Transylvanians to elect their own independent princes in future was officially recognized.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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