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Respective vs Brabantian - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between respective and brabantian

is that respective is relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own while Brabantian is of or pertaining to the Brabantian language.

As a proper noun Brabantian is

the language/dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (Holland), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces, (Belgium).

As a noun Brabantian is

a person from the respective provinces or historic region (esp. if Brabantian-spoken) of Brabant.

respective

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.
    • They returned to their respective places of abode.
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  • (obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary.
  • * Archbishop Sandys
    • If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not refuse this charge.
  • (obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
    • the respective connections of society
  • (obsolete) Fitted to awaken respect.
  • * 1599 , , IV. iv. 192:
    • What should it be that he respects in her / But I can make respective in myself,
  • (obsolete) Rendering respect; respectful; regardful.
  • * Chapman
    • With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.
  • * Lord Burleigh
    • With thy equals familiar, yet respective .

    Synonyms

    * (relating to particular persons or things) corresponding, relevant, specific

    Derived terms

    * respectiveness * irrespective

    brabantian

    English

    (wikipedia Brabantian)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the Brabantian language.
    • That is a Brabantian accent, and ''not'' a Limburgish one!
  • Of or pertaining to Brabant or its people.
    • The Brabantian calvinists emigrated ''en masse'' to Holland after the ''Sack of Antwerp'' in the 1580s.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language/dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (Holland), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces, (Belgium).
    • He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and the standard language in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers at the playground, a classic example of diglossia.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from the respective provinces or historic region (esp. if Brabantian-spoken) of Brabant.
    • The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, the Dutch.

    Usage notes

    * The name of the language, Brabantian , when it means "the Brabantian language", does not assume an article. * Nowadays the demonym mostly applies to people from the eponymous provinces.