Definitions for Tuscan

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Tuscan Tus·can

Spelling: [tuhs-kuh n]

IPA: /ˈtʌs kən/

Tuscan is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in Tuscan (acnstu).

Definitions for Tuscan

noun

1. the standard literary form of the Italian language.
2. any Italian dialect of Tuscany.
3. a native of Tuscany.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Tuscany, its people, or their dialect.
2. Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders: developed in Rome, it is basically a simplified Roman Doric, with unfluted columns and with no decoration other than moldings. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Ionic (def 1).

Origin of Tuscan

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Tuscānus Etruscan, equivalent to Tusc(ī) the Etruscans + -ānus -an

Examples for Tuscan

Yet this is just the weather in which Tuscan landscape looks its loveliest.

Newton shot the photos in Monte Carlo—where he lived—and the Tuscan countryside.

Then, in 2010, bones thought to be his were found in a seaside church grave in Porto Ercole on the Tuscan coast.

We were going to do a book called The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.

“Expansion favors everyone,” added the 79-year-old Tuscan, who started off as a bookkeeper in a marble firm in 1955.

The Tuscan looked at him with all the scarcely-veiled contempt of the North for the South.

His latest Robert Langdon bestseller has tourists flocking to the Tuscan capital as recession grips Italy.

Though all cannot live on the piazza,” as the Tuscan proverb has it, “every one may feel the sun.

Vertumnus had a statue in the Tuscan Way in Rome, and a temple.

It has been suggested that it stands for Maia, a name of the Tuscan goddess.