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Meaning of 'aryan' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Aryan [ a.]
- Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
2 . Aryan [ n.]
- One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
- The language of the original Aryans.

Meaning of 'aryan' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . aryan [ a]
Meaning (1):
- of or relating to the former Indo-European people
Example in sentence:
  • Indo-European migrations

Nearby Words:

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