Syracusanadj.n.
/ˈsʌɪərəˌkjuːzən/ A. adj.
Of or belonging to Syracuse, a city in Sicily.
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1576 A. Fleming tr. Plato in Panoplie Epist. 220 Italian iunkets, and Syracusane deinties.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 456/2 The city of Himera was..peopled by the Chalcidians and some Syracusan exiles.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 674 Grape,..red Syracusan.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 435/2 Syracusan [marble]..was wrought from the latomia, which were quarries before Dionysius converted them into prisons.
1916 J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War XI. lxxix. 36 The Syracusan expedition was the death-blow of the Athenian Empire.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of Syracuse.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Petalisme, a forme..of banishment among the old Syracusans.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money xvi. 203 Dionysius..obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins.
Derivatives
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Sicily
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > Sicily > towns of
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > Sicily > towns of
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 14 It hath..beene decreed, Both by the Siracusians and our selues, To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 3 A Syracusian Marchant. View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 26 A Syracusian wrote of the Art of Rhetorick.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 85 Whose Greek inhabitants were probably for the most part either Syracusians, or of Syracusian extraction.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 456/2 The Syracusians built Acræ, Chasmenæ, and Camarina.
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