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abecedarian
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adj 1: alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
n 1: a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
2: a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who
had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
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aeon
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n 1: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the
Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of
the universe [syn: eon, aeon]
2: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon]
3: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons
ago" [syn: eon, aeon]
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agrarian
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adj 1: relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural)
society"; "farming communities" [syn: agrarian,
agricultural, farming(a)]
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antiquarian
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adj 1: of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques
or antiquities
2: of or relating to antiques or antiquities
n 1: an expert or collector of antiquities [syn: antiquary,
antiquarian, archaist]
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apiarian
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adj 1: relating to bees or beekeeping
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authoritarian
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adj 1: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule;
having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime";
"autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a
dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the
war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: authoritarian,
autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic,
tyrannical]
2: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of
authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior
toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial,
overbearing]
n 1: a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a
dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn:
authoritarian, dictator]
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barbarian
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adj 1: without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders";
"barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is
crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are
efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn:
barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized,
uncivilised, wild]
n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage,
barbarian]
2: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
[syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth,
tyke, tike]
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carrion
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n 1: the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human
food
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centenarian
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adj 1: being at least 100 years old
n 1: someone who is at least 100 years old
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centurion
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n 1: (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
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clarion
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adj 1: loud and clear; "a clarion call"
n 1: a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
v 1: blow the clarion
2: proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
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criterion
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n 1: a basis for comparison; a reference point against which
other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with
federal standards"; "they set the measure for all
subsequent work" [syn: standard, criterion, measure,
touchstone]
2: the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they
live by the standards of their community" [syn: criterion,
standard]
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disciplinarian
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n 1: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
[syn: martinet, disciplinarian, moralist]
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durian
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n 1: tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a
hard spiny rind [syn: durian, durion, durian tree,
Durio zibethinus]
2: huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell
and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like
nuts
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egalitarian
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adj 1: favoring social equality; "a classless society" [syn:
classless, egalitarian]
n 1: a person who believes in the equality of all people [syn:
egalitarian, equalitarian] [ant: elitist]
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empyrean
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adj 1: of or relating to the sky or heavens; "the empyrean
sphere" [syn: empyrean, empyreal]
2: inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to
empyreal absurdity"- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton
Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night" [syn: empyreal,
empyrean, sublime]
n 1: the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which
celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: celestial
sphere, sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens,
vault of heaven, welkin]
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equalitarian
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n 1: a person who believes in the equality of all people [syn:
egalitarian, equalitarian] [ant: elitist]
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equestrian
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adj 1: of or relating to or composed of knights
2: of or relating to or featuring horseback riding
n 1: a man skilled in equitation [syn: horseman, equestrian,
horseback rider]
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grammarian
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n 1: a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and
syntax [syn: grammarian, syntactician]
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historian
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n 1: a person who is an authority on history and who studies it
and writes about it [syn: historian, historiographer]
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humanitarian
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adj 1: marked by humanistic values and devotion to human
welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for
humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for
all members of our species" [syn: human-centered,
human-centred, humanist, humanistic,
humanitarian]
2: of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism;
"humanitarian aid"
n 1: someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to
social reforms [syn: humanitarian, do-gooder,
improver]
2: an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned
with the interests and welfare of humans [syn: humanist,
humanitarian]
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hyperborean
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n 1: (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks
believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source
of the north wind
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latitudinarian
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adj 1: unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in
religion) [syn: free-thinking, latitudinarian,
undogmatic, undogmatical]
n 1: a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in
standards of religious belief and conduct)
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libertarian
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n 1: an advocate of libertarianism
2: someone who believes the doctrine of free will [ant:
necessitarian]
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librarian
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n 1: a professional person trained in library science and
engaged in library services [syn: librarian,
bibliothec]
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millenarian
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adj 1: relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and
happiness [syn: millenarian, chiliastic]
n 1: a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a
time of great peace and prosperity) [syn: millenarian,
millenarist, chiliast]
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mitochondrion
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n 1: an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing
energy [syn: mitochondrion, chondriosome]
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nonagenarian
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adj 1: being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian
inhabitants of the nursing home"
n 1: someone whose age is in the nineties
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octogenarian
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adj 1: being from 80 to 89 years old
n 1: someone whose age is in the eighties
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ovarian
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adj 1: of or involving the ovaries; "ovarian cancer"
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parliamentarian
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n 1: an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of
the House of Commons [syn: Parliamentarian, Member of
Parliament]
2: an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures
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pedestrian
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adj 1: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
[syn: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound]
n 1: a person who travels by foot [syn: pedestrian, walker,
footer]
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planarian
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n 1: free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in
laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
[syn: planarian, planaria]
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proletarian
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adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat
n 1: a member of the working class (not necessarily employed);
"workers of the world--unite!" [syn: proletarian,
prole, worker]
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radiolarian
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n 1: protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous
pseudopods
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riparian
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adj 1: of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or
stream; "riparian land"
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salutatorian
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n 1: a graduating student with the second highest academic rank;
may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises
[syn: salutatorian, salutatory speaker]
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saurian
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adj 1: of or relating to lizards [syn: saurian, lacertilian]
n 1: any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which
includes lizards; in former classifications included also
the crocodiles and dinosaurs
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sectarian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects;
"sectarian differences"
2: belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind";
"the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook;
"sectarian squabbles in psychology" [ant: nonsectarian,
unsectarian]
n 1: a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the
views of any other sect" [syn: sectarian, sectary,
sectarist]
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seminarian
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n 1: a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic
seminary) [syn: seminarian, seminarist]
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septuagenarian
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n 1: someone whose age is in the seventies
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sexagenarian
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adj 1: being from 60 to 69 years old; "the sexagenarian
population is growing"
n 1: someone whose age is in the sixties
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stentorian
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adj 1: used of the voice [syn: booming, stentorian]
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tellurian
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adj 1: of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to
the sea or air [syn: tellurian, telluric,
terrestrial, terrene]
n 1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling,
earthman, worldling]
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totalitarian
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adj 1: characterized by a government in which the political
authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a
totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions
in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur
M.Schlesinger, Jr.
2: of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according
to which the state regulates every realm of life;
"totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a
totalistic fashion" [syn: totalitarian, totalistic]
n 1: an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian
government
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utilitarian
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adj 1: having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables"
[syn: utilitarian, useful]
2: having utility often to the exclusion of values; "plain
utilitarian kitchenware"
n 1: someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on
its utility
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valedictorian
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n 1: the student with the best grades who usually delivers the
valedictory address at commencement [syn: valedictorian,
valedictory speaker]
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valerian
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n 1: a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected
leaves and cymose white or pink flowers
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valetudinarian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a
valetudinarian [syn: valetudinarian, valetudinary]
n 1: weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned
with his or her health
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vegetarian
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n 1: eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no
meat or fish or (often) any animal products
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veterinarian
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n 1: a doctor who practices veterinary medicine [syn:
veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon, vet]
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marian
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adj 1: of or relating to or venerating the Virgin Mary
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bavarian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bavaria or its
people; "Bavarian beer"
n 1: a native or an inhabitant of Bavaria
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bulgarian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bulgaria or its
people; "the Bulgarian capital is Sofia"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Bulgaria
2: a Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria
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contrarian
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n 1: an investor who deliberately decides to go against the
prevailing wisdom of other investors
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hungarian
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adj 1: relating to or characteristic of Hungary; "Hungarian folk
music" [syn: Hungarian, Magyar]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Hungary [syn: Hungarian,
Magyar]
2: the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania);
belongs to the Ugric family of languages [syn: Hungarian,
Magyar]
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wagnerian
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adj 1: of or relating to Richard Wagner or his music
n 1: a follower of the theories or an admirer of the music of
Richard Wagner
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nonsectarian
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adj 1: not restricted to one sect or school or party; "religious
training in a nonsectarian atmosphere"; "nonsectarian
colleges"; "a wide and unsectarian interest in religion"-
Bertrand Russell [syn: nonsectarian, unsectarian]
[ant: sectarian]
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unitarian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characterizing Unitarianism
n 1: adherent of Unitarianism
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caesarean
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adj 1: relating to abdominal delivery [syn: cesarean,
cesarian, caesarean, caesarian]
2: of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar [syn:
Caesarian, Caesarean]
n 1: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the
abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius
Caesar was born that way) [syn: cesarean delivery,
caesarean delivery, caesarian delivery, cesarean
section, cesarian section, caesarean section,
caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian,
caesarean, caesarian, abdominal delivery]
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aryan
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adj 1: of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-
European migrations" [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Aryan,
Aryan]
n 1: (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic
descent (and not a Jew)
2: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo
European [syn: Aryan, Indo-European]
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cesarean
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adj 1: relating to abdominal delivery [syn: cesarean,
cesarian, caesarean, caesarian]
n 1: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the
abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius
Caesar was born that way) [syn: cesarean delivery,
caesarean delivery, caesarian delivery, cesarean
section, cesarian section, caesarean section,
caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian,
caesarean, caesarian, abdominal delivery]
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rotarian
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n 1: a member of a Rotary Club
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tartarean
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus
[syn: Hadean, Plutonian, Tartarean]
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tocharian
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n 1: a branch of the Indo-European language family that
originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.
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vulgarian
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n 1: a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar
display of wealth)
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delawarean
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n 1: a native or resident of Delaware [syn: Delawarean,
Delawarian]
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prelapsarian
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adj 1: of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and
Eve
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sabbatarian
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adj 1: pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance
n 1: one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism)
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trinitarian
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n 1: adherent of Trinitarianism
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chorion
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n 1: the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher
vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
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morion
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n 1: a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century
[syn: morion, cabasset]
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korean
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Korea or its
people or language; "Korean handicrafts"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean
language
2: the Altaic language spoken by Koreans
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mezereon
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n 1: small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored
flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs [syn:
mezereon, February daphne, Daphne mezereum]
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adrian
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n 1: Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan; travelled
throughout his empire to strengthen its frontiers and
encourage learning and architecture; on a visit to Britain
in 122 he ordered the construction of Hadrian's Wall
(76-138) [syn: Hadrian, Publius Aelius Hadrianus,
Adrian]
2: English physiologist who conducted research into the function
of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997) [syn:
Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, Baron Adrian]
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hadrian
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n 1: Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan; travelled
throughout his empire to strengthen its frontiers and
encourage learning and architecture; on a visit to Britain
in 122 he ordered the construction of Hadrian's Wall
(76-138) [syn: Hadrian, Publius Aelius Hadrianus,
Adrian]
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algerian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Algeria or its
inhabitants; "Algerian towns"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Algeria
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syrian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its
people or culture; "the Syrian government"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Syria
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assyrian
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n 1: an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
2: the language of modern Iraq [syn: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic,
Assyrian]
3: an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia
[syn: Assyrian Akkadian, Assyrian]
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hyperion
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n 1: (Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and
Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in
ancient mythology
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iberian
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adj 1: of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula or its
inhabitants
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus
2: a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially
in ancient times)
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illyrian
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n 1: a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European
languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast
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liberian
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adj 1: of or relating to Liberia or its people; "Liberian ship
owners"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Liberia
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nigerian
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adj 1: of or relating to Nigeria; "the Nigerian capital used to
be Lagos"
2: of or relating to the people of Nigeria; "a Nigerian novelist
won the Nobel Prize for literature this year" [syn:
Nigerian, Nigerien]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
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siberian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Siberia or the
Siberians; "Siberian natural resources"; "Siberian coal
miners"; "the Siberian tundra"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Siberia
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hanoverian
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adj 1: of or relating to the former English royal House of
Hanover or their supporters
n 1: any of the British rulers who were members of the House of
Hanover
2: a member (or supporter) of the house of Hanover
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presbyterian
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n 1: a follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian
Church
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arthurian
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adj 1: of or relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table
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austrian
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adj 1: of or relating to Austria or its people or culture;
"Austrian music"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Austria
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cambrian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its
people or their language; "the Welsh coast"; "Welsh
syntax" [syn: Welsh, Cambrian]
n 1: from 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine
invertebrates [syn: Cambrian, Cambrian period]
2: a native or resident of Wales [syn: Welshman, Welsh,
Cambrian, Cymry]
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cyprian
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adj 1: of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture;
"Cypriot expatriates"; "Cypriote monasteries" [syn:
Cyprian, Cypriote, Cypriot]
2: resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on
Cyprus
n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart,
cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady,
lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
2: a native or inhabitant of Cyprus [syn: Cypriot, Cypriote,
Cyprian]
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dorian
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adj 1: of or relating to the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris,
to their Doric dialect of Greek, or to their culture
n 1: a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the
prehistoric Greeks
2: the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece
from the north about 1100 BC
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ugrian
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n 1: one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of
languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia [syn:
Ugric, Ugrian]
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umbrian
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n 1: an extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy
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cimmerian
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adj 1: intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness;
"the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be
felt"-Norman Douglas
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eutherian
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adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria;
"eutherian mammals"
n 1: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes
and marsupials [syn: placental, placental mammal,
eutherian, eutherian mammal]
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gregorian
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adj 1: of or relating to Pope Gregory I or to the plainsong
chants of the Roman Catholic Church
2: of or relating to Pope Gregory XIII or the calendar he
introduced in 1582
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hesperian
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adj 1: denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the
western hemisphere; "occidental civilization"; "Hesperian
culture" [syn: occidental, Hesperian]
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lancastrian
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adj 1: of or relating to the former English royal house or their
supporters; "Lancastrian royalty"
2: of or relating to the English city of Lancaster or its
residents; "Lancastrian city center"
n 1: a member (or supporter) of the house of Lancaster
2: a resident of Lancaster
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nestorian
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adj 1: relating to Nestorius or Nestorianism
n 1: a follower of Nestorius