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Magyar   Listen
proper noun
Magyar  n.  
1.
(Ethnol.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.
2.
The language of the Magyars.





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"Magyar" Quotes from Famous Books



... reading-stand. Instantly his two servants slipped out of the low-browed cavern and supported him. They wore dull-black gowns like his own, but they had not the frosty silver on the hair, nor the frost-bitten refinement of the features. They were peasants, Croat or Magyar, with broad, blunt visages and blinking eyes. For the first time something troubled the Prince, but his courage and diplomatic sense ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... Metternich, whose political career ended in that year of revolutions and who was now only a figure in society. After the Crimean War Morier obtained permission to make a tour through South-east Hungary and to study for himself the mixture of Slavonic, Magyar, and Teutonic races inhabiting that district. He followed this up by another tour of three months, which carried him from Agram southwards into Bosnia and Herzegovina, having prepared for it by working ten to twelve hours a day for some weeks ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore


Words linked to "Magyar" :   Ugrian, European, Magyarorszag, Hungarian, Hungary, Ugric, Republic of Hungary


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