say it: al-SAY-shuhn
alsatian is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Alsace". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Alsace
breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind
of or relating to or characteristic of Alsace or its inhabitants
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alsatian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.