Orcadian

//ɔː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.diː.ən// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone from the Orkney Islands.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the Orkney Islands.

    "Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the late Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown wrote. “The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.”"

Synonyms

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orkneyanorkneyanorkneyan

Example

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"Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the late Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown wrote. “The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.”"

Etymology

From Latin Orcades + -ian.

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