italian

[I*talĀ·ian]

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language

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Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.

Noun
the Romance language spoken in Italy

Noun
a native or inhabitant of Italy

Adjective
of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language; "Italian cooking"


a.
Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.

n.
A native or inhabitant of Italy.

n.
The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.


Italian

I*tal"ian , a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf. Italic.] Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.

Italian

I*tal"ian, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Italy. 2. The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.

Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.

A native or inhabitant of Italy.

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Usage Examples

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

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