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ALL meanings of aryan

Ar·y·an
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  • noun aryan (in Nazi ideology) a Caucasian of non-Jewish descent, esp of the Nordic type 3
  • noun aryan a member of any of the peoples supposedly descended from the Indo-Europeans, esp a speaker of an Iranian or Indic language in ancient times 3
  • adjective aryan of, relating to, or characteristic of an Aryan or Aryans 3
  • adjective aryan Indo-European 3
  • adjective aryan designating or of the Indo-European language family 3
  • adjective aryan Indo-Iranian 3
  • adjective aryan of the Aryans 3
  • noun aryan the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European family 3
  • noun aryan a person belonging to, or supposed to be a descendant of, the prehistoric peoples that spoke this language 3
  • noun aryan Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European. 1
  • noun aryan (in Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian, especially of Nordic stock. 1
  • noun aryan (formerly) Indo-European. 1
  • noun aryan (formerly) Indo-Iranian. 1
  • adjective aryan of or relating to an Aryan or the Aryans. 1
  • adjective aryan (formerly) Indo-European. 1
  • adjective aryan (formerly) Indo-Iranian. 1
  • noun aryan Nazi ideal: white person 1
  • noun aryan person from Indo-Iranian ethnic group 1
  • adjective aryan Nazi ideal: of white race 1
  • adjective aryan of Indo-Iranian ethnic group 1
  • noun aryan (theosophy, Germanic mysticism, Nazism) A member of an alleged master race with no fixed definition, comprising people of Germanic descent (in the narrowest sense), or all non-Jewish Caucasians (in the broadest sense). 0
  • noun aryan (Informal) (Nazi or white supremacist ideology) A person of Caucasian ethnicity; a white non-Jew. 0
  • noun aryan (chiefly US, informal, euphemistic) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense. 0
  • noun aryan (dated) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European. 0
  • noun aryan (dated) An Indo-Iranian. 0
  • noun aryan (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (ethnography) A subdivision of the Caucasian race, which comprised the Aryans, the Semites, and the Hamites, or the accompanying linguistic subdivision. 0
  • adjective aryan Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race. 0
  • adjective aryan (Informal) (neo-Nazi or white supremacist ideology) Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity. 0
  • adjective aryan (US, informal, euphemistic) Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc. 0
  • adjective aryan Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages. 0
  • adjective aryan (dated) Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages. 0
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