Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Galilee.
- noun A Christian.
- noun Jesus.
- adjective Of or relating to Galilee or its people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Galileo, a great Italian mathematician and natural philosopher (1564-1642), who laid the foundations of the science of dynamics.
- Pertaining to Galilee, the northernmost division of Palestine in the time of Christ, lying north of Samaria.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Galilee.
- noun One of a class among the Jews who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans about the time of the emperor Augustus.
- noun A Christian, as a follower of Jesus Christ, called
the Galilean : used by the ancient Jews in contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to Galilee.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.
- noun (Jewish Hist.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also
Gaulonite . - noun A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Galileo. See
telescope .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to
Galilee , or a native or inhabitant thereof. - adjective philosophy of or pertaining to the philosopher
Galileo Galilei . - noun A native or resident of
Galilee . - noun historical A
zealous follower ofJudas ofGalilee , who fiercely resented thetaxation of theRomans , and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow theextermination of the whole race. - noun by extension, sometimes derogatory A
Christian . - proper noun
Jesus Christ .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inhabitant of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ)
- adjective of or relating to Galileo or his works
- noun one of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo
- adjective of or relating to Galilee or its inhabitants
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Examples
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Not only are they moving too quickly -- indeed, the Galilean is running faster than he ever has before -- but the dust kicking up from the road is swirling around him in a red cloud.
Under the fig tree Andrew Beckner 2006
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Not only are they moving too quickly -- indeed, the Galilean is running faster than he ever has before -- but the dust kicking up from the road is swirling around him in a red cloud.
Archive 2006-12-01 Andrew Beckner 2006
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Today this is sometimes called Galilean relativity.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Today this is sometimes called Galilean relativity.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Today this is sometimes called Galilean relativity.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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A British Astronomer Royal, George Airy, saw another dark spot that recorded as being nearly four times bigger than shadows cast by Jupiter’s main Galilean moons.
Amateur Astronomers Capture Collision on Jupiter | Impact Lab 2010
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Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites -- reddish Io upper left
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Ignacio Mosqueira -- Worlds in the Making SETI Institute 2011
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Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites -- reddish Io upper left
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Ignacio Mosqueira -- Worlds in the Making SETI Institute 2011
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The Medicean Stars, now known as the Galilean Moons, they will shuttle backwards and forwards during the nights as you watch.
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This sort of transformation is referred to as a Galilean velocity transformation.
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