galloway
IPA: gˈæɫoʊweɪ
Root Word: Galloway
noun
- A formerly Gaelic-speaking region in the southwestern-most corner of Scotland, now part of Dumfries and Galloway council area. Its capital is Kirkcudbright.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Lakefield Township, Saginaw County and Lafayette Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.
- A neighbourhood of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.
- A township in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community in Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas.
- A census-designated place and coal town in Barbour County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Franzen, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
- A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.
- A rural locality in Central Otago district, north-east of Alexandra, Otago, New Zealand.
- A surname.
- One of a breed of beef-producing cattle, originating in Galloway, Scotland.
- A kind of small horse originally bred in Galloway, Scotland.
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Examples of "galloway" in Sentences
- Habitation in the Galloway hills.
- Galloway is highly reported in the press.
- Galloway was a difficult fiefdom to rule.
- Many of the cattle are of the Galloway breed.
- Ambrose is the second to be slain by Galloway.
- Galloway was well aware of this from the start.
- Galloway was a stronghold of the extreme covenanters.
- Eastriggs is a village in the south of Dumfries and Galloway.
- Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland.
- The normal policy of the times would therefore be doubly to ridicule Galloway.
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