First Names Rhyming ARIAN
English Words Rhyming ARIAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ARƯAN AS A WHOLE:
abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
agrarian | noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property. |
| noun (n.) An agrarian law. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. |
| adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. |
agrarianism | noun (n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land. |
alphabetarian | noun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. |
altitudinarian | adjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. |
antiquarian | noun (n.) An antiquary. |
| noun (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature. |
antiquarianism | noun (n.) Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. |
antiquitarian | noun (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] |
antisabbatarian | noun (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath. |
anythingarian | noun (n.) One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. |
apiarian | adjective (a.) Of or relating to bees. |
apollinarian | noun (n.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ. |
| adjective (a.) In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games. |
aquarian | noun (n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an aquarium. |
araucarian | adjective (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian. |
arian | noun (a. & n.) See Aryan. |
| noun (n.) One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. |
arianism | noun (n.) The doctrines of the Arians. |
atrabilarian | noun (n.) A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Atrabilarious |
attitudinarian | noun (n.) One who attitudinizes; a posture maker. |
attitudinarianism | noun (n.) A practicing of attitudes; posture making. |
aularian | noun (n.) At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to a hall. |
barbarian | noun (n.) A foreigner. |
| noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. |
| noun (n.) A person destitute of culture. |
| noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. |
| adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations. |
bavarian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria. |
caesarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial. |
campanularian | noun (n.) A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae. |
catenarian | adjective (a.) Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve. |
catilinarian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy. |
centenarian | noun (n.) A person a hundred years old. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to a hundred years. |
cercarian | noun (n.) One of the Cercariae. |
| adjective (a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariae. |
cesarian | adjective (a.) Same as Caesarean, Caesarian. |
concubinarian | noun (a. & n.) Concubinary. |
contrariant | adjective (a.) Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. |
corpuscularian | noun (n.) An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. |
| adjective (a.) Corpuscular. |
covariant | noun (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic. |
diarian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a diary; daily. |
dietarian | noun (n.) One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter. |
dimyarian | noun (n.) One of the Dimya. |
| adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Dimya. |
disciplinarian | noun (n.) One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar. |
| noun (n.) A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to discipline. |
doctrinarian | noun (n.) A doctrinaire. |
doctrinarianism | noun (n.) The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires. |
episcoparian | adjective (a.) Episcopal. |
equalitarian | noun (n.) One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler. |
establishmentarian | noun (n.) One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. |
experimentarian | noun (n.) One who relies on experiment or experience. |
| adjective (a.) Relying on experiment or experience. |
floscularian | noun (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk. |
fastilarian | noun (n.) A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. |
grammarian | noun (n.) One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist. |
| noun (n.) One who writes on, or teaches, grammar. |
grammarianism | noun (n.) The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians. |
gregarian | adjective (a.) Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ARƯAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rian) - English Words That Ends with rian:
abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
adrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
alabastrian | adjective (a.) Alabastrine. |
alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
algerian | noun (n.) A native of Algeria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria. |
amatorian | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
assyrian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. |
asturian | noun (n.) A native of Asturias. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain. |
austrian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Austria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. |
azorian | noun (n.) A native of the Azores. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Azores. |
arthurian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to King Arthur or his knights. |
bactrian | noun (n.) A native of Bactria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. |
bosporian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus. |
cabirian | adjective (a.) Same as Cabiric. |
cambrian | noun (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales. |
| noun (n.) The Cambrian formation. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology. |
campestrian | adjective (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground. |
cantabrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain. |
celtiberian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Celtiberia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). |
censorian | adjective (a.) Censorial. |
cimbrian | noun (n.) One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. |
cimmerian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness. |
| adjective (a.) Without any light; intensely dark. |
consistorian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. |
cumbrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there. |
cyprian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot. |
| noun (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to Cyprus. |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness. |
decandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Decandrous |
diandrian | adjective (a.) Diandrous. |
dictatorian | adjective (a.) Dictatorial. |
dictionalrian | noun (n.) A lexicographer. |
dinosaurian | noun (n.) One of the Dinosauria. |
dodecandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Dodecandrous |
dorian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion. |
| adjective (a.) Same as Doric, 3. |
durian | noun (n.) Alt. of Durion |
enaliosaurian | noun (n.) One of the Enaliosauria. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Enaliosauria. |
enneandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Enneandrous |
equestrian | noun (n.) One who rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games. |
| adjective (a.) Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. |
etrurian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy. |
eulerian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century. |
gasserian | adjective (a.) Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. |
gladiatorian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general. |
gregorian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. |
gynandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gynandrous |
hanoverian | noun (n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England. |
harderian | adjective (a.) A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate. |
heptandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Heptandrous |
herbarian | noun (n.) A herbalist. |
hesperian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of a western country. |
| noun (n.) Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper. |
| adjective (a.) Western; being in the west; occidental. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers. |
hexandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hex-androus |
historian | noun (n.) A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist. |
| noun (n.) One versed or well informed in history. |
holothurian | noun (n.) One of the Holothurioidea. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. |
humanitarian | noun (n.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human. |
| noun (n.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual. |
| noun (n.) One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature. |
| adjective (a.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid. |
| adjective (a.) Benevolent; philanthropic. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ian) - English Words That Ends with ian:
abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
| noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
| noun (n.) A collegian. |
acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
acoustician | noun (n.) One versed in acoustics. |
acroceraunian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
aeolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
aeonian | adjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting. |
aesculapian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
albanian | noun (n.) A native of Albania. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. |
albigensian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. |
aleutian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic |
allophylian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
alogian | noun (n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. |
alsatian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Alsatia. |
altaian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Altaic |
amazonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley. |
ambrosian | adjective (a.) Ambrosial. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. |
ametabolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis. |
amoebian | noun (n.) One of the Amoebea. |
amphibian | noun (n.) One of the Amphibia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles. |
amphicoelian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Amphicoelous |
anglian | noun (n.) One of the Angles. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles. |
antediluvian | noun (n.) One who lived before the Deluge. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. |
antemeridian | adjective (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.) |
anthobian | noun (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers. |
anthropophaginian | noun (n.) One who east human flesh. |
antichristian | adjective (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion. |
antinomian | noun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory. |
antiochian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. |
antiphlogistian | noun (n.) An opposer of the theory of phlogiston. |
aonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there. |
apalachian | adjective (a.) See Appalachian. |
aphidian | noun (n.) One of the aphides; an aphid. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae. |
aphrodisian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. "Aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans]. |
apian | adjective (a.) Belonging to bees. |
apician | adjective (a.) Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. |
apollonian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Apollonic |
appalachian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains. |
appian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Appius. |
aquitanian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony. |
arabian | noun (n.) A native of Arabia; an Arab. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. |
arcadian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Arcadic |
archaeologian | noun (n.) An archaeologist. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ARƯAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (aria) - Words That Begins with aria:
aria | noun (n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ari) - Words That Begins with ari:
aricine | noun (n.) An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark. |
arid | adjective (a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. |
aridity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. |
aridness | noun (n.) Aridity; dryness. |
aries | noun (n.) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March. |
| noun (n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram. |
| noun (n.) A battering-ram. |
arietation | noun (n.) The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. |
| noun (n.) Act of striking or conflicting. |
arietta | noun (n.) Alt. of Ariette |
ariette | noun (n.) A short aria, or air. |
aril | noun (n.) Alt. of Arillus |
arillus | noun (n.) A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. |
arillate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ariled |
ariled | adjective (a.) Having an aril. |
ariman | noun (n.) See Ahriman. |
ariolation | noun (n.) A soothsaying; a foretelling. |
ariose | adjective (a.) Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony. |
arising | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arise |
arise | noun (n.) Rising. |
| verb (v. i.) To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning. |
| verb (v. i.) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. |
| verb (v. i.) To proceed; to issue; to spring. |
aristarch | noun (n.) A severe critic. |
aristarchian | adjective (a.) Severely critical. |
aristarchy | noun (n.) Severely criticism. |
| noun (n.) Severe criticism. |
aristate | adjective (a.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. |
| adjective (a.) Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip. |
aristocracy | noun (n.) Government by the best citizens. |
| noun (n.) A ruling body composed of the best citizens. |
| noun (n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. |
| noun (n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect. |
aristocrat | noun (n.) One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble. |
| noun (n.) One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. |
| noun (n.) One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern. |
aristocratic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aristocratical |
aristocratical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution. |
| adjective (a.) Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy; as, an aristocratic measure; aristocratic pride or manners. |
aristocratism | noun (n.) The principles of aristocrats. |
| noun (n.) Aristocrats, collectively. |
aristology | noun (n.) The science of dining. |
aristophanic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet. |
aristotelian | noun (n.) A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). |
aristotelic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. |
aristulate | adjective (a.) Having a short beard or awn. |
arithmancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of numbers. |
arithmetic | noun (n.) The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures. |
| noun (n.) A book containing the principles of this science. |
arithmetical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to arithmetic; according to the rules or method of arithmetic. |
arithmetician | noun (n.) One skilled in arithmetic. |
arithmomancy | noun (n.) Arithmancy. |
arithmometer | noun (n.) A calculating machine. |
ariel | noun (n.) In the Cabala, a water spirit; in later folklore, a light and graceful spirit of the air. |
| () Alt. of Ariel gazelle |
arillode | noun (n.) A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode. |
aristotype | noun (n.) Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ARƯAN:
English Words which starts with 'ar' and ends with 'an':
arachnidan | noun (n.) One of the Arachnida. |
aramaean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aramean |
aramean | noun (n.) A native of Aram. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. |
araneidan | noun (n.) One of the Araneina; a spider. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders. |
archaean | noun (n.) The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life. |
| adjective (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history. |
archilochian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter. |
archimedean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. |
argean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo. |
argentan | noun (n.) An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver. |
argoan | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo. |
armenian | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians. |
| noun (n.) An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Armenia. |
arminian | noun (n.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609). |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n. |
armorican | noun (n.) The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times. |
| noun (n.) A native of Armorica. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. |
artesian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. |
artilleryman | noun (n.) A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing. |
artisan | noun (n.) One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. |
| noun (n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. |
artsman | noun (n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts. |
arundelian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624. |
aryan | noun (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic. |
| noun (n.) The language of the original Aryans. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages. |