walloon

IPA: wˈɔɫˈun

Root Word: Walloon

The Romance language commonly spoken until the middle of the 20th century in parts of southern Belgium and northern France (around Givet).
An inhabitant of Wallonia, of Belgian nationality, nowadays generally French-speaking, but also possibly German-speaking.
An inhabitant of the region of southern Belgium and northern France (around Givet), usually of Belgian nationality.

Referring to the French-speaking people of southern Belgium and parts of northern France.
Referring to the Romance language spoken by this people.

Examples of "walloon" in Sentences

As we move into the walloon part of Belgium today we revisit some of the roads of the Fléche Wallonne.
Btw, walloon refers to the French-speaking region of Belgium, as opposed to the Flemish-speaking one Flanders.
Johnson begins at the qualifiers in Belgium -- walloon Whitney loses to a four-piece featuring lanky drummer Laurens, which advances to the finals.
The fact that the walloon greens are, in fact, doing so much better than the flemish ones is part of why I believe I live in the wrong part of Belgium; it's not just these elections.
He said an alarmingly high proportion of them were diagnosed with ADHD, he initially put this down partly to lazy bratdom trying to blag an easy life but was shocked to see that if some of them didn't get their meds turned into genuine bouncy walloon chasers.
This success is the fruit of a close collaboration between a dynamic set of 16 companies and a university, mainly from Wallonia (the french-speaking part of Belgium outside Brussels) and members of TWIST, the walloon network for audiovisual and multimedia technologies.
A couple of good nuggets of info on the Midtown Lunch Twitter Tracker… the La Cense Burger Truck is back in Midtown, Goodburger is having some sort of early bird special, Street Sweets is near the Hearst Building, and get a free dinge from the W&D Truck if you know which animal is on the walloon flag ?