Galilean

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to Galilee, or a native or inhabitant thereof.
• Of or pertaining to the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Galileo Galilei.

Noun

• A native or resident of Galilee.
• A zealous follower of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race.
• A Christian.

Proper Noun

• Jesus Christ.

Origin

• Originated 1605–15 from Latin Galilaea, from Galilee + -an.
• Originated 1720–30, from Galileo + -an.