neapolitan
IPA: niʌpˈɑɫʌtʌn
Root Word: Neapolitan
noun
- An inhabitant or resident of Naples.
- An individually wrapped piece of chocolate, sold in assortments of various flavours such as coffee and orange.
- A language spoken in South Italy, approximately in the area of the former Kingdom of Naples.
adjective
- Pertaining to Naples, a city in southern Italy.
- Designating an ice cream combination of the flavours chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry in order. (Until the mid-20th century the flavours were pistachio, vanilla, and strawberry, giving the colours of the Italian flag.)
- (dated) Describing a variety of ice cream made with eggs as well as cream.
- (food) Alternative form of Neapolitan [Pertaining to Naples, a city in southern Italy.]
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Examples of "neapolitan" in Sentences
- The great age of Neapolitan opera.
- Neapolitan, for example, has no future.
- Designer of the Neapolitan flip coffee pot.
- But if it's Neapolitan, please hold the pineapple.
- It is always sung and spoken in Neapolitan dialect.
- You could be responsible for the Neapolitan section...
- As a result, the Neapolitan horse fit the Baroque horse mold.
- Murat and the Neapolitans had reached the zenith of their campaign.
- The French government was more fastidious than Spanish and Neapolitan.
- This resounding success demonstrated the weakness of the Neapolitan government.
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