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roland
/ˈɹoʊlənd/
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What does roland mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in Pulaski County, Arkansas.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in French Lick Township, Orange County, Indiana.
- A city in Story County, Iowa.
- A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
- A rural municipality and village therein, in southern Manitoba, Canada.
- A rural community of Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia, named for a Captain Rolland.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹoʊlənd/
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"There is no use coming here any more, Prince Roland is dead," he gruffly explained as we passed.
This is held to be a Roland of sufficient pungency for de Vere's Oliver.
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Many of them sat and brooded over the crumbs of their repast, and made me wonder, as Childe Roland wondered, what evil they had done that they should be punished so.
Not so the Greek Childe Roland who set the slug-horn to his lips and blew a challenge.
Ferragus, the monster supposed to have been slain by Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne, was said to have been nearly 11 feet high.