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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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amnion
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n 1: thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing
embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
[syn: amnion, amniotic sac, amnios]
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chelonian
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adj 1: of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or
tortoise
n 1: a reptile of the order Chelonia [syn: chelonian,
chelonian reptile]
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chthonian
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adj 1: dwelling beneath the surface of the earth; "nether
regions" [syn: chthonian, chthonic, nether]
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communion
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n 1: the act of participating in the celebration of the
Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of
the congregation" [syn: Communion, Holy Communion,
sacramental manduction, manduction]
2: sharing thoughts and feelings [syn: communion, sharing]
3: (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious
faith who practice the same rites
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disunion
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n 1: the termination or destruction of union [ant:
conjugation, jointure, unification, union,
uniting]
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dominion
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n 1: dominance or power through legal authority; "France held
undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule
of Caesar" [syn: dominion, rule]
2: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
[syn: district, territory, territorial dominion,
dominion]
3: one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth
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gorgonian
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n 1: corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton
[syn: gorgonian, gorgonian coral]
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intercommunion
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n 1: participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one
church (eg Catholic and Orthodox)
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minion
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n 1: a servile or fawning dependant
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plutonian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus
[syn: Hadean, Plutonian, Tartarean]
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quaternion
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n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn:
four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion,
quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet,
foursome, Little Joe]
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reunion
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n 1: a party of former associates who have come together again
2: the act of coming together again; "monetary unification
precipitated the reunification of the German state in October
1990" [syn: reunion, reunification]
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subterranean
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adj 1: being or operating under the surface of the earth;
"subterranean passages"; "a subsurface flow of water"
[syn: subterranean, subterraneous]
2: lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially
being kept in the background or deliberately concealed);
"subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an
ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell [syn:
subterranean, subterraneous, ulterior]
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union
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adj 1: being of or having to do with the northern United States
and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil
War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal
infantryman" [syn: Union, Federal]
2: of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations";
"a union-shop clause in the contract" [ant: nonunion]
n 1: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the
employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a
job" [syn: union, labor union, trade union, trades
union, brotherhood]
2: the United States (especially the northern states during the
American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the
Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the
North's superior resources turned the scale" [syn: Union,
North]
3: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating
of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling,
mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
4: the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is
strength in union" [syn: union, unification] [ant:
separation]
5: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for
life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God
bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union,
spousal relationship, wedlock]
6: healing process involving the growing together of the edges
of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn:
union, conglutination]
7: a political unit formed from previously independent people or
organizations; "the Soviet Union"
8: a set containing all and only the members of two or more
given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn:
union, sum, join]
9: the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning
produced an unusual union of the metals"
10: a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two
or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
11: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of
opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of
his family for the holidays" [syn: union, unification,
uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]
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albanian
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adj 1: of or relating to Albania or its people or language or
culture
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Albania
2: the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania
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iranian
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adj 1: of or relating to Iran or its people or language or
culture; "Iranian mountains"; "Iranian security police"
[syn: Iranian, Persian]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Iran; "the majority of Irani are
Persian Shiite Muslims" [syn: Irani, Iranian,
Persian]
2: the modern Persian language spoken in Iran [syn: Iranian,
Iranian language]
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jordanian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its
people; "Jordanian archeological sites"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Jordan
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ukrainian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Ukraine or its
people or culture
n 1: the Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine
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lithuanian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Lithuania or its
people or language
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Lithuania
2: the official language of Lithuania; belongs to the Baltic
branch of Indo-European
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panamanian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Panama or its
people; "Panamanian economy"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Panama
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pomeranian
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n 1: breed of very small compact long-haired dogs of the spitz
type
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arminian
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adj 1: of or relating to Arminianism
n 1: adherent of Arminianism
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darwinian
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adj 1: of or relating to Charles Darwin's theory of organic
evolution; "Darwinian theories"
n 1: an advocate of Darwinism
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justinian
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n 1: Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his
empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his
general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain
(483-565) [syn: Justinian, Justinian I, Justinian the
Great]
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sardinian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Sardinia or its
people or its language
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Sardinia
2: the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered
a separate language with many loan words from Spanish
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argentinian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its
people; "Argentinian tango" [syn: Argentine,
Argentinian]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Argentina
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augustinian
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n 1: a Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the
Augustinian monastic orders
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carthaginian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage
or its people or their language; "the Punic Wars";
"Carthaginian peace" [syn: Carthaginian, Punic]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage
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palestinian
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adj 1: of or relating to the area of Palestine and its
inhabitants; "Palestinian guerrillas"
n 1: a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine [syn:
Palestinian, Palestinian Arab]
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bostonian
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n 1: a native or resident of Boston
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devonian
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n 1: from 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of
fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites [syn:
Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes]
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draconian
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adj 1: of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws;
"Draconian measures"
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estonian
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adj 1: of or pertaining to Estonia or the people or culture of
Estonia
n 1: the official language of Estonia; belongs to the Baltic-
Finnic family of languages [syn: Estonian, Esthonian]
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newtonian
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adj 1: of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his
science; "Newtonian physics"
n 1: a follower of Isaac Newton
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babylonian
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adj 1: of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or
culture; "Babylonian religion"
n 1: an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
2: the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the
ancient Babylonian language was written
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macedonian
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adj 1: of or relating to Macedonia or its inhabitants;
"Macedonian hills"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Macedon
2: the Slavic language of modern Macedonia
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oregonian
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n 1: a native or resident of Oregon [syn: Oregonian, Beaver]
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bosnian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bosnia-Herzegovina
or the people of Bosnia
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athenian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its
inhabitants
n 1: a resident of Athens
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etonian
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n 1: a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College
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laconian
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n 1: a resident of Laconia
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mancunian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the English city
of Manchester or its residents; "Mancunian merchants"
n 1: a native or resident of Manchester
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oxonian
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adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Oxford
University; "Oxonian education"
2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the city of Oxford,
England, or its inhabitants; "his Oxonian neighbors";
"Oxonian bookstores"
n 1: a native or resident of Oxford
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shoshonean
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n 1: a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the
southwestern United States [syn: Shoshonean, Shoshonean
language, Shoshonian, Shoshonian language]
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wilsonian
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adj 1: of or relating to or suggestive of Woodrow Wilson
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aberdonian
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adj 1: of or relating to Aberdeen
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thessalonian
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n 1: a native or inhabitant of Thessalonica
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moynihan
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n 1: United States politician and educator (1927-2003) [syn:
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan]
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virginian
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n 1: a native or resident of Virginia
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californian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of California or its
inhabitants; "Californian beaches"
n 1: a native or resident of California
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papua
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n 1: the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea
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mediterranean
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of or located near
the Mediterranean Sea; "Mediterranean countries"
n 1: the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
[syn: Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea]
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epilimnion
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hypolimnion
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sassanian
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turanian
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vulcanian
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araucanian
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amazonian
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hercynian
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eleusinian
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valentinian
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apollonian
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smithsonian
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patagonian
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falernian
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hibernian
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johnsonian
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neptunian
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scillonian
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serbonian
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slavonian
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chalcedonian
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ciceronian
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grandisonian
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magdalenian
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tennysonian
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catalonian
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