Georgian

Noun

Georgian (countable and uncountable, plural Georgians)

2. (uncountable) The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
3. (countable) A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
4. (countable) A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.

Adjective

Georgian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
   • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 10 June 2016:

     As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.

2. Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. State of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Georgian terms
• Appendix:Georgian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Georgian

Noun

Georgian (plural Georgians)

1. (historical) A British citizen during the reign of a king named George.

Adjective

Georgian (comparative more Georgian, superlative most Georgian)

1. Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830-1837).
2. Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910-1936).
3. Pertaining to or characteristic of Stefan George (a German poet).
   • 2001, Martin Travers, Critics of Modernity: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1890–1933, page 82:

     The same Georgian persona, leonine and sacerdotal (that of the aristocratic priest) appears throughout the reminiscences of all his disciples.

   • 2005, Ernst Osterkamp, “The Legacy of the George Circle”, in Exile, Science and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals, page 23:

     Another example of this sterile Georgian orthodoxy is to be found in the case of Ernst Morwitz ...

   • 2012, Paul Fleming, “Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz”, in “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933, page 227:

     Kantorowicz […] warns against confusing a Georgian aesthetic “secret Germany,” which still slumbered in concealment, with contemporary, ‘awakened’ Nazi Germany.

4. Of or pertaining to Saint George.