Fenian
Meaning
Noun
- An Irish nationalist or republican.
- A member of the Fenian Brotherhood or the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish republican organizations active in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- A Catholic, especially one of Irish ethnicity or descent.
- A supporter of Scottish association football club Celtic F.C.
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Origin
- Blend of Old Irish feinne or fianna, plural of fiann, the name of a legendary band of Irish warriors, and Fene or Féni, legendary settlers of Ireland. First attested from 1816.
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