MAGYAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Magyar mean? 

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

1. a native or inhabitant of Hungary

2. the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages

  Familiarity information: MAGYAR used as a noun is rare.

• MAGYAR (adjective)
  The adjective MAGYAR has 1 sense:

1. relating to or characteristic of Hungary

  Familiarity information: MAGYAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGYAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Hungary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hungarian; Magyar

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

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Magyar" is a member of...):

Hungary; Magyarorszag; Republic of Hungary (a republic in central Europe)

Derivation:

Magyar (relating to or characteristic of Hungary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Hungarian; Magyar

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

Ugrian; Ugric (one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia)

Derivation:

Magyar (relating to or characteristic of Hungary)

• MAGYAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of Hungary

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Hungarian; Magyar

Context example:

Hungarian folk music

Derivation:

Magyar (the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages)

Magyar (a native or inhabitant of Hungary)

 Context examples 

When was redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On November 4, Hungarian daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet revealed a deal whereby, on October 29, Hungarian state-owned enterprise HDT Védelmi Ipari Kft. (HDT Limited) acquired Austrian mortar and shell manufacturer Hirtenberger Defence Group.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The November 4 issue of Magyar Nemzet published an interview with Gáspár Maróth, the Hungarian Government commissioner responsible for defence, defence industries and coordinating defence modernization, in which the deal was announced.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkey-land; ay, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for, as the Turks say, 'water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Is it a wonder that we were a conquering race; that we were proud; that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)