Sicilian

adjective

1. 1

   Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.

   Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?

proper noun

1. 1

   The language of Sicily.

2. 2

   A sub-age from 0.781 to 0.26 million years ago, a subdivision of the Pleistocene.

noun

1. 1

   A native or inhabitant of Sicily, Italy.

   The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as the Sicilians called the royal troops, were [...]

2. 2

   Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.

   Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly.

Forms

plural

Sicilians