WELSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Welsh mean? 

• WELSH (noun)
  The noun WELSH has 3 senses:

1. a native or resident of Wales

2. a Celtic language of Wales

3. a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales

  Familiarity information: WELSH used as a noun is uncommon.

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

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language

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

• WELSH (verb)
  The verb WELSH has 1 sense:

1. cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt

  Familiarity information: WELSH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or resident of Wales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cambrian; Cymry; Welsh; Welshman

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

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Welsh" is a member of...):

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Welsh (of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Celtic language of Wales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Cymric; Welsh

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

Brittanic; Brythonic (a southern group of Celtic languages)

Domain region:

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Welsh (of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Welsh; Welsh Black

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

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

• WELSH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Cambrian; Welsh

Context example:

Welsh syntax

Pertainym:

Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Welsh (a Celtic language of Wales)

Welsh (a native or resident of Wales)

• WELSH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they welsh    ... he / she / it welshes   
Past simple: welshed   
Past participle: welshed   
-ing form: welshing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

welch; welsh

Hypernyms (to "welsh" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

welsher (someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager)

 Context examples 

She was of Welsh blood, fiery and passionate.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted! Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Pembroke Welsh Corgi is a long, low dog with large erect ears, a broad flat skull and a fox-like head.

(Pembroke Welsh Corgi, NCI Thesaurus)

The Glen of Imaal Terrier is a sturdy dog that resembles the Welsh Corgi - a short legged dog that is low to the ground with a long body.

(Glen of Imaal Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

It tends to be a heavier than the Pembroke Welsh Corgi.

(Cardigan Welsh Corgi, NCI Thesaurus)

“A Welsh dagsman, i' faith! C'etait mauvais gout, camarade, and the more so when she had a jolly archer and a lusty man-at-arms to choose from.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lakeland Terrier is a solid, squarely proportioned dog similar to the Welsh Terrier, but a bit smaller.

(Lakeland Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

A standardized rating scale originally developed and copyrighted by Mickie Welsh and The Parkinson Study Group in 1996 then released for publication in the journal Movement Disorders in 2003 which is used to assist the clinician in evaluating the degree to which the patient's Parkinson's disease symptoms interfere with their quality of life.

(Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

On the very day that we fought over the little hussy, she went off with Evan ap Price, a long-legged Welsh dagsman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Cardigan Welsh Corgi is a long, low dog with very large erect ears, a broad flat skull, and a long, low-set tail.

(Cardigan Welsh Corgi, NCI Thesaurus)