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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Walloonsnoun

    an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France

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  1. walloons

    Walloons are a French-speaking ethnic group native to Wallonia, the southern region of Belgium. They are one of the two main ethnic communities in Belgium, along with the Flemings in the north. Their language, Walloon, is a Romance language, closely related to French.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Walloons

    a Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively

  2. Etymology: [Cf. F. wallon.]

Wikidata

  1. Walloons

    Walloons are a French-speaking people who live in Belgium, principally in Wallonia. Walloons are a distinctive community within Belgium. Important historical and anthropological criteria bind Walloons to the French people. More generally, the term also refers to the inhabitants of the Walloon Region. They speak regional languages such as Walloon.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Walloons

    name given to the descendants of the ancient Belgæ, a race of a mixed Celtic and Romanic stock, inhabiting Belgium chiefly, and speaking a language called Walloon, a kind of Old French; in Belgium they number to-day two and a quarter millions.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of walloons in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of walloons in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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