Belgie

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See also: België

English

Noun

Belgie (plural Belgies)

  1. (slang) A Belgian.
    • 1980, Barbara Hanrahan, The Frangipani Garden, page 11:
      Jim Reed began talking about the Tommies, the Aussies, the Froggies, the Belgies, the Pork and Cheese.
    • 1984, Pamela Haines, The Diamond Waterfall, page 353:
      Money's coming through any day from the Belgies — it's all in order, paper work, all that — but we need to put up a bit extra just now. Before it comes through.
    • 2014, Leo Kessler, SS Panzer Battalion: Wotan's First Mission:
      If you listen carefully, you can hear the Belgies down below in the underground galleries. Hundreds of them there are.

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Czech

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Etymology

From Latin Belgia.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɪjɛ
  • Hyphenation: Bel‧gie

Proper noun

Belgie f (related adjective belgický, demonym Belgičan, female demonym Belgičanka)

  1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

Declension

See also

(countries of Europe) státy Evropy; Albánie, Andorra, Arménie, Ázerbájdžán, Belgie, Bělorusko, Bosna a Hercegovina, Bulharsko, Černá Hora, Česko, Dánsko, Estonsko, Finsko, Francie, Gruzie, Chorvatsko, Irsko, Island, Itálie, Kazachstán, Kypr, Lichtenštejnsko, Litva, Lotyšsko, Lucembursko, Maďarsko, Malta, Moldavsko, Monako, Německo, Nizozemsko, Norsko, Polsko, Portugalsko, Rakousko, Rumunsko, Rusko, Řecko, San Marino, Severní Makedonie, Slovensko, Slovinsko, Spojené království, Srbsko, Španělsko, Švédsko, Švýcarsko, Turecko, Ukrajina, Vatikán, (Category: cs:Countries in Europe)

Further reading

  • Belgie”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • Belgie”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • Belgie” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz
  • Belgie”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

Proper noun

Belgie

  1. Misspelling of België.