English dictionary
Aryan
/'/(@)/r/i//@/n/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
adjective
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of or relating to the former Indo-European people
Source: WordNet 3.0
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Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the <i>Aryan</i> stock, the <i>Aryan</i> languages.
Source: webster1913
noun
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(according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)
Source: WordNet 3.0
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a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
Synonyms indo-europeanSource: WordNet 3.0
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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.
Source: webster1913