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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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antediluvian
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adj 1: of or relating to the period before the biblical flood;
"antediluvian man" [syn: antediluvian, antediluvial]
2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
"a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas";
"archaic laws" [syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian
deluge [syn: antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch]
2: a very old person [syn: ancient, antediluvian]
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avian
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adj 1: pertaining to or characteristic of birds
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cyclopean
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adj 1: of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops; "Cyclopean
eye"
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eon
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n 1: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon,
aeon]
2: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons
ago" [syn: eon, aeon]
3: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the
Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of
the universe [syn: eon, aeon]
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neon
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n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow
in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in
the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number
10]
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oblivion
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n 1: the state of being disregarded or forgotten [syn:
oblivion, limbo]
2: total forgetfulness; "he sought the great oblivion of sleep"
[syn: obliviousness, oblivion]
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paean
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n 1: a formal expression of praise [syn: encomium, eulogy,
panegyric, paean, pean]
2: (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in
ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) [syn: paean,
pean]
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peon
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n 1: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge,
peon, navvy, galley slave]
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plebeian
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adj 1: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the
common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior
that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose";
"a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed
masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
n 1: one of the common people [syn: plebeian, pleb]
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protean
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adj 1: taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling
protean grey which is never twice the same"
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caribbean
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n 1: an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South
America; the origin of the Gulf stream [syn: Caribbean,
Caribbean Sea]
2: region including the Caribbean Islands
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european
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the
people of Europe; "European Community"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Europe
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jacobean
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adj 1: of or relating to James I or his reign or times;
"Jacobean writers"
n 1: any distinguished personage during the reign of James I
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shavian
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adj 1: of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works
n 1: an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works
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moravian
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adj 1: of or relating to the people or culture of Moravia
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scandinavian
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adj 1: of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures;
"Norse sagas"; "Norse nomads" [syn: Scandinavian,
Norse]
n 1: an inhabitant of Scandinavia [syn: Scandinavian, Norse,
Northman]
2: the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in
Scandinavia and Iceland [syn: Scandinavian, Scandinavian
language, Nordic, Norse, North Germanic, North
Germanic language]
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andean
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adj 1: relating to the Andes and their inhabitants
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dantean
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adj 1: of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings [syn:
Dantean, Dantesque]
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tanzanian
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adj 1: of or relating to the republic of Tanzania or its people
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Tanzania
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archaean
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adj 1: of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during
the Precambrian Eon [syn: archean, archaean]
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chaldean
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adj 1: of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or
language or culture [syn: Chaldean, Chaldaean,
Chaldee]
n 1: a wise man skilled in occult learning [syn: Chaldean,
Chaldaean, Chaldee]
2: an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea [syn: Chaldean,
Chaldaean, Chaldee]
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linnaean
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adj 1: of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of taxonomic
classification that Linnaeus proposed [syn: Linnaean,
Linnean]
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mandaean
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adj 1: of or relating to the Mandaean people or their language
or culture [syn: Mandaean, Mandean]
n 1: a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan
and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist
was the Messiah [syn: Mandaean, Mandean]
2: the form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans [syn: Mandaean,
Mandean]
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hebridean
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adj 1: of or relating to the Hebrides
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sisyphean
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adj 1: of or relating to Sisyphus
2: both extremely effortful and futile
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jovian
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adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of or resembling
the planet Jupiter; "Jovian satellites"
2: of or pertaining to or befitting the Roman deity Jupiter;
"Jovian thunderbolts"; "Jovian wrath"
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latvian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Latvia or its
people or language
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Latvia
2: the official language of Latvia; belongs to the Baltic branch
of Indo-European [syn: Latvian, Lettish]
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alluvion
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n 1: gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or
deposit of sediment
2: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
[syn: flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion]
3: clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and
deposited where the stream slows down [syn: alluvial
sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, alluvion]
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bolivian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bolivia or its
people
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Bolivia
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octavian
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n 1: Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became
emperor in 27 BC; defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31
BC at Actium (63 BC - AD 14) [syn: Augustus, Gaius
Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Octavian]
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pavlovian
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adj 1: of or relating to Ivan Pavlov or his experiments;
"Pavlovian conditioning"
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peruvian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its
people; "Peruvian artifacts"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Peru
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subclavian
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adj 1: situated beneath the clavicle
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yugoslavian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the former country
of Yugoslavia or its people or languages; "Yugoslavian
wine" [syn: Yugoslavian, Yugoslav]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia [syn: Yugoslav,
Jugoslav, Yugoslavian, Jugoslavian]
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ian
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meehan
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maccabean
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moldavian
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paeon
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cadmean
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orphean
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rugbeian
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sabaean
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hasmonean
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nabataean
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tacitean
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servian
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vivian
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vivien
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belgravian
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harrovian
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