CORNISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cornish mean? 

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

1. a Celtic language spoken in Cornwall

2. English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters

  Familiarity information: CORNISH used as a noun is rare.

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

1. of or related to Cornwall or its people or the Cornish language

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Celtic language spoken in Cornwall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Brittanic; Brythonic (a southern group of Celtic languages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cornish; Cornish fowl

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

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

• CORNISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or related to Cornwall or its people or the Cornish language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Cornwall (a hilly county in southwestern England)

 Context examples 

It was a large and bright dwelling, rather a villa than a cottage, with a considerable garden which was already, in that Cornish air, well filled with spring flowers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had not been at home above ten days, when Captain William Robinson, a Cornish man, commander of the Hopewell, a stout ship of three hundred tons, came to my house.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Derived from a cross between a white cornish male and a barred rock female in the 1930s, modern broilers are an F2 hybrid of broiler breeds characterized by high fecundity and fast growth.

(Broiler Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from a cross between a white cornish male and a barred rock female in the 1930s, modern broiler chickens are an F2 hybrid of broiler breeds characterized by high fecundity and fast growth.

(Broiler Chicken, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Inside the house we were met by the elderly Cornish housekeeper, Mrs. Porter, who, with the aid of a young girl, looked after the wants of the family.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having been condemned, by nature and fortune, to active and restless life, in two months after my return, I again left my native country, and took shipping in the Downs, on the 20th day of June, 1702, in the Adventure, Captain John Nicholas, a Cornish man, commander, bound for Surat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Many of my readers may retain some recollection of what was called at the time “The Cornish Horror,” though a most imperfect account of the matter reached the London press.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus it was that in the early spring of that year we found ourselves together in a small cottage near Poldhu Bay, at the further extremity of the Cornish peninsula.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is the secret of that Cornish seclusion which people have marvelled at.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My only claim to being taken into your confidence is that during my many residences here I have come to know this family of Tregennis very well—indeed, upon my Cornish mother’s side I could call them cousins—and their strange fate has naturally been a great shock to me.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)