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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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circadian
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adj 1: of or relating to biological processes occurring at
24-hour intervals; "circadian rhythms"
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comedian
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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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enchiridion
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n 1: a concise reference book providing specific information
about a subject or location [syn: handbook,
enchiridion, vade mecum]
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guardian
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n 1: a person who cares for persons or property [syn:
defender, guardian, protector, shielder]
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median
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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
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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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obsidian
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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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ophidian
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n 1: limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous [syn:
snake, serpent, ophidian]
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quotidian
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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
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n 1: the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites [syn: steradian, sr]
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tragedian
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n 1: a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
2: an actor who specializes in tragic roles
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floridian
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n 1: a native or resident of Florida
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akkadian
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n 1: an ancient branch of the Semitic languages
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chadian
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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
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n 1: an early French settler in the Maritimes
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arcadian
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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
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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
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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
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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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hadean
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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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antipodean
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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
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n 1: an Anatolian language
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ascidian
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n 1: minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body
with siphons through which water enters and leaves
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dravidian
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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
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adj 1: relating to geometry as developed by Euclid; "Euclidian
geometry" [syn: euclidian, euclidean]
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proboscidean
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n 1: massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
[syn: proboscidean, proboscidian]
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gammadion
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viridian
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gideon
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orcadian
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judaean
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midian
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aphidian
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pisidian
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stasidion
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archimedean
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nullifidian
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