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ophidian
1
n 1: limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous [syn:
snake, serpent, ophidian]
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aeon
0
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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circadian
0
adj 1: of or relating to biological processes occurring at
24-hour intervals; "circadian rhythms"
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comedian
0
n 1: a professional performer who tells jokes and performs
comical acts [syn: comedian, comic]
2: an actor in a comedy
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cyclopean
0
adj 1: of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops; "Cyclopean
eye"
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enchiridion
0
n 1: a concise reference book providing specific information
about a subject or location [syn: handbook,
enchiridion, vade mecum]
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eon
0
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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guardian
0
n 1: a person who cares for persons or property [syn:
defender, guardian, protector, shielder]
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median
0
adj 1: relating to or constituting the middle value of an
ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two
in a set with an even number of values); "the median
value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for
the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average]
2: dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial,
median]
3: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
[syn: median, medial]
n 1: the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median,
median value]
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meridian
0
adj 1: of or happening at noon; "meridian hour"
2: being at the best stage of development; "our manhood's prime
vigor"- Robert Browning [syn: prime, meridian]
n 1: the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage
of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of
beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the
height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer
was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle
of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest
superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his
profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak,
pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop,
top]
2: a town in eastern Mississippi
3: an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing
through the north and south poles at right angles to the
equator; "all points on the same meridian have the same
longitude" [syn: meridian, line of longitude]
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neon
0
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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obsidian
0
n 1: acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava
without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in
thin pieces
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paean
0
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
0
n 1: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge,
peon, navvy, galley slave]
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plebeian
0
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
0
adj 1: taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling
protean grey which is never twice the same"
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quotidian
0
adj 1: found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid
everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing
quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a
quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday,
mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable,
workaday]
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steradian
0
n 1: the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites [syn: steradian, sr]
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tragedian
0
n 1: a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
2: an actor who specializes in tragic roles
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caribbean
0
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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floridian
0
n 1: a native or resident of Florida
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european
0
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
0
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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andean
0
adj 1: relating to the Andes and their inhabitants
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dantean
0
adj 1: of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings [syn:
Dantean, Dantesque]
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tanzanian
0
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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akkadian
0
n 1: an ancient branch of the Semitic languages
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chadian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of
Chad or its people or language; "the Chadian desert";
"Chad soldiers"; "Chadian folktales"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Chad
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acadian
0
n 1: an early French settler in the Maritimes
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arcadian
0
adj 1: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically
rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a
pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral
setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian,
bucolic, pastoral]
n 1: an inhabitant of Arcadia
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canadian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Canada or its people
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Canada
2: a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing
eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of
the Arkansas River in Oklahoma [syn: Canadian, Canadian
River]
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grenadian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Grenada or its
inhabitants; "the Grenadian capital"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Grenada
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palladian
0
adj 1: referring to or relating to or having the style of
architecture created by Andrea Palladio; "the much
imitated arch and column compositions known as the
Palladian motif"
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archaean
0
adj 1: of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during
the Precambrian Eon [syn: archean, archaean]
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chaldean
0
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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hadean
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus
[syn: Hadean, Plutonian, Tartarean]
n 1: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first
accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years
ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800
million years ago); no evidence of life [syn: Hadean,
Hadean time, Hadean eon, Hadean aeon, Priscoan,
Priscoan eon, Priscoan aeon]
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linnaean
0
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
0
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
0
adj 1: of or relating to the Hebrides
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sisyphean
0
adj 1: of or relating to Sisyphus
2: both extremely effortful and futile
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antipodean
0
adj 1: relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides
of the earth; "antipodean latitudes"; "antipodal regions
of the earth"; "antipodal points on a sphere" [syn:
antipodal, antipodean]
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lydian
0
n 1: an Anatolian language
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ascidian
0
n 1: minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body
with siphons through which water enters and leaves
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dravidian
0
n 1: a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed
south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
2: a large family of languages spoken in south and central India
and Sri Lanka [syn: Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian
language]
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euclidean
0
adj 1: relating to geometry as developed by Euclid; "Euclidian
geometry" [syn: euclidian, euclidean]
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proboscidean
0
n 1: massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
[syn: proboscidean, proboscidian]
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gammadion
0
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viridian
0
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gideon
0
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ian
0
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meehan
0
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maccabean
0
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orcadian
0
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paeon
0
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cadmean
0
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orphean
0
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rugbeian
0
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sabaean
0
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hasmonean
0
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nabataean
0
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tacitean
0
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midian
0
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pisidian
0
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archimedean
0
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nullifidian
0
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solifidian
0