GALLOWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Galloway mean? 

• GALLOWAY (noun)
  The noun GALLOWAY has 2 senses:

1. a district in southwestern Scotland

2. breed of hardy black chiefly beef cattle native to Scotland

  Familiarity information: GALLOWAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALLOWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A district in southwestern Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("Galloway" is a part of...):

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

Derivation:

Galwegian (of or relating to or characteristic of the Scottish district of Galloway or its people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Breed of hardy black chiefly beef cattle native to Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Galloway" is a kind of...):

beef; beef cattle (cattle that are reared for their meat)

 Context examples 

Ma foi! you have not seen a drove of Nithsdale raiders on their Galloway nags, or you would not speak of loving them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)