gallia

1. 1.

   an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands

   SynonymsGaul

   Broadergeographical area

Other forms of gallia

plural

gallias·

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.

Questions about gallia

What does gallia mean?

gallia means "an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands".

How many syllables are in gallia?

gallia has 2 syllables: gal-lia. The stress falls on "gal". In IPA it is /ˈɡæljə/.

What is another word for gallia?

Close synonyms include Gaul. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gallia a common word?

gallia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.