cornish

«cornish» in Mova's school dictionary: From or to do with Cornwall, a county in the far… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (Cornish); noun (Cornish, the language)

meaning for a pupil

1) From or to do with Cornwall, a county in the far south-west of England. tree →

2) The old Celtic language of Cornwall, which is being learned again. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and food, Cornish pasties, Cornish cream teas and Cornish beaches are famous. In history, Cornish tin mines were important. In language lessons, Cornish is a revived Celtic language related to Welsh and Breton.

examples

• We ate Cornish pasties on the beach. tree →
• Cornish tin mines are now museums. tree →
• A few people speak Cornish today. tree →
• The Cornish coast has beautiful cliffs. tree →
• In Cornwall, you put jam first on a cream tea. tree →
• «Kernow» is the Cornish name for Cornwall. tree →
• “Here's the right valiant Cornish man, Who slew the giant Cormoran.” tree →

note

Always capital C. A «Cornish pasty» is a pastry with meat and vegetables folded inside.

In the corpora

• Bronze is copper mixed with tin, and Cornish tin was traded across Europe for thousands of years.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cornish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.