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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#m1)

2) The old Celtic language of Cornwall, which is being learned again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#x1)
- Cornish tin mines are now museums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#x2)
- A few people speak Cornish today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#x3)
- The Cornish coast has beautiful cliffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#x4)
- In Cornwall, you put jam first on a cream tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#x5)
- «Kernow» is the Cornish name for Cornwall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#x6)
- “Here's the right valiant Cornish man, Who slew the giant Cormoran.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cornish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cornish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.