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Umbrian
/ ˈʌmbrɪən /
adjective
- of or relating to Umbria, its inhabitants, their dialect of Italian, or the ancient language once spoken there
- of or relating to a Renaissance school of painting that included Raphael
noun
- a native or inhabitant of Umbria
- an extinct language of ancient S Italy, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family See also Osco-Umbrian
Other Words From
- non-Umbri·an adjective noun
Example Sentences
During that time his father rented out one whole floor of the luxury Brufani Hotel overlooking the Umbrian countryside.
The picturesque Umbrian hill town of Perugia may have seemed an idyllic setting for cultural and linguistic enhancement.
It is one of the loveliest of all early Umbrian pictures, full of a new kind of happiness that is about to discover the world.
Influenced in the beginning by the Sienese, the Umbrian school of painting remained almost entirely religious.
Assisi, the little Umbrian hill town, is deservedly the popular shrine that it is.
Perugias lode star for travellers has ever been the fact that it was the centre of the school of Umbrian painters.
It needed the Umbrian sky, it required the Umbrian landscape to make of such strange contrasts an harmonious whole.
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