-arian
(Latin: a suffix forming adjectives from nouns ending in -ary; a person who, a thing that; a person who is a part of something, pertaining to one's state or condition; a person who has a connection with or belief in the stated subject; a promotor of something; a native or inhabitant of someplace; someone of a certain age)
abecedarian
1. Of or pertaining to the alphabet; marked with the alphabet; arranged in alphabetical order, as abecedarian psalms, like the 119th.
2. Occupied with learning the alphabet, or pertaining to one so occupied.
3. One engaged in teaching the alphabet and the merest rudiments of instruction.
2. Occupied with learning the alphabet, or pertaining to one so occupied.
3. One engaged in teaching the alphabet and the merest rudiments of instruction.
acararian (adjective) (not comparable)
Pertaining to, caused by, or of the nature of an acarus (mite): The loss of the honey crop was attributed to the acararian invasion of a new species of mites that attacked the hives.
acarian (adjective), more acarian, most acarian
Pertaining to, caused by, or of the nature of a mite: Acarian organisms are minute or tiny creatures whose history goes back to the early Devonian period.
agrarian (adjective), more agrarian, most agrarian
1. In Roman history, relating to the land: An agrarian epithet of a law (Lex agraria) was intended for the division of conquered lands.
2. Relating to, or connected with, landed property: In the book that Jane was reading, agrarian reforms were in progress to improve the status of famers tending to their farm land.
3. Of, relating to, or connected with cultivated land or its cultivation: A agrarian calendar is still used in schools to indicate when children are needed at home to do planting or harvesting in the summer.
4. In botany, pertaining to plants growing wild in the fields: The agrarian flowers and thistles were absolutely beautiful in the open meadows.
2. Relating to, or connected with, landed property: In the book that Jane was reading, agrarian reforms were in progress to improve the status of famers tending to their farm land.
3. Of, relating to, or connected with cultivated land or its cultivation: A agrarian calendar is still used in schools to indicate when children are needed at home to do planting or harvesting in the summer.
4. In botany, pertaining to plants growing wild in the fields: The agrarian flowers and thistles were absolutely beautiful in the open meadows.
The name for an agrarian region was proposed for the lowest of the altitudinal zones of vegetation within the limits of the cultivation of corn.
alphabetarian
Someone who is learning his or her alphabet, or the mere rudiments of any subject; a beginner; an abecedarian.
Also, someone who studies alphabets.
altitudinarian (adjective)
1. Pertaining to, or reaching to, the heights (of fancy, doctrine, etc.).
2. Someone who has lofty aims, thoughts, or plans: "Joe Kurt had an altitudinarian objective of being high in moral and intellectual values as a politician."
2. Someone who has lofty aims, thoughts, or plans: "Joe Kurt had an altitudinarian objective of being high in moral and intellectual values as a politician."
A person who opposes the withdrawal of the state's recognition of an established church: An antidisestablishmentarian believes that the Church of England should retain its legal relationship with the state, and not depart from it.
antiquarian
Of or connected with the study of antiquities.
antiquitarin
One attached to the practices or opinions of antiquity.
apiarian
Pertaining to bee-hives or bee-keeping.
1. One of a sect of Christians in the primitive church, who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.
3. People who keep an aquarium.
3. A person who is born under Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac.
3. People who keep an aquarium.
3. A person who is born under Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac.
attitudinize (at" i TOOD nighz, at" i TYOOD nighz) (verb), attitudinizes; attitudinized; attitudinizing
To present a special behavior in order to impress others: Jim was attitudinizing his audience with stories about how he was able to accomplish more for his company than anyone else.
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authoritarian (adjective), more authoritarian, most authoritarian
1. Characteristic of something that involves strict rules and an established authority: The new principal of the high school has more authoritarian guidelines and regulations which are stricter than those that his predecessor had.
2. Relating to, belonging to, or believing in a political system in which obedience to the ruling person or group is strongly enforced: Some people are quite authoritarian when they maintain dictatorial ways of governing their countries.
3. A reference to someone who favors or maintains strict rules and obedience: Mr. Gregory was a very authoritarian teacher in his history classes because his students were not allowed to use their cell phones in and they were required to concentrate on what he was striving to teach them.
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2. Relating to, belonging to, or believing in a political system in which obedience to the ruling person or group is strongly enforced: Some people are quite authoritarian when they maintain dictatorial ways of governing their countries.
3. A reference to someone who favors or maintains strict rules and obedience: Mr. Gregory was a very authoritarian teacher in his history classes because his students were not allowed to use their cell phones in and they were required to concentrate on what he was striving to teach them.
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barbarian, barbaryn (older spelling)
1. Historically, someone who is not a Greek; then it became a person living outside the boundary of the Roman empire and its civilization; applied especially to the northern nations that overthrew them; followed by anyone who existed outside the realm of Christian civilization.
2. A rude, savage, alien, wild, uncivilized person.
3. An uncultured person, or someone who has no sympathy with literary culture.
4. Applied by nations, generally depreciatively, to foreigners; thus at various times and with various speakers or writers: non-Hellenic, non-Roman (most usual), non-Christian.
5. Uncultivated, uncultured, crude, unsophisticated, uncouth: "The artist accused the public of having barbarian tastes."
6. A foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker's.
2. A rude, savage, alien, wild, uncivilized person.
3. An uncultured person, or someone who has no sympathy with literary culture.
4. Applied by nations, generally depreciatively, to foreigners; thus at various times and with various speakers or writers: non-Hellenic, non-Roman (most usual), non-Christian.
5. Uncultivated, uncultured, crude, unsophisticated, uncouth: "The artist accused the public of having barbarian tastes."
6. A foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker's.
From Greek barbaros, "non-Greek, foreign, barbarous," from an Indo-European imitative base barb, "to stammer, stutter; and unintelligible." The Greeks were quoted as saying that foreigners sounded as if they were saying, "Barbar, Barbar," which was, for the Greeks, unintelligible.
Barbarian, from Latin barbarus. It seems to have signified, at first, only a foreign or a foreigner; but, in time, it implied some degree of wildness or cruelty.
A librarian.
