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.
- "neapolitan" (strawberry cupcakes with half vanilla, half chocolate frosting) are all delightful.
- Note: I added the strawberry essence to give it a true neapolitan flavour, the original recipe just used pink food colouring.
- We had a very clear winner this week, nougat absolutely smashed the nuts no pun intended and the neapolitan in the polls, and why wouldn't it?
- It was extremely disappointing and I nearly gave up there and then, but when I realised that I had all the necessary ingredients for neapolitan cupcakes I was in business again.
- Donald made steadier and stealthier progress than Westwood, at least as stealthy as can be made by a man whose pistachio, raspberry and white outfit made him look like a walking neapolitan ice cream.
- I ended up relying on the good neapolitan people and asking for directions, which worked out perfectly, but maybe it isn't so easy to pull over in the Big American Street, so it could be a good and reassuring thing for you to have a gps.
- I can find just about every other type of ice cream in the supermarkets - raspberry, blaspberry, blueberry, rueberry, neapolitan, metropolitan, cosmopolitan, spagnola, spinoza, and even leibniz-flavoured (with a sprinkling of monads) - but never can I find coconut.