Sekirov Dictionary

Aryan

UK /ˈɛəɹi.ən/US /ˈæɹiən/

adjective 5
noun 6
forms 3

adjective5

Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
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(US, informal) Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.
- Imagine our outrage if the foreign press depicted Aryan groups as representing mainstream Christianity. — 2006
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(informal) Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.
- Neo-Nazis use Nordic religions to fashion a more noble Aryan past and a modern Pan-Aryan community. Symbols from and references to ancient spirituality pepper neo-Nazi literature. — 2003
(old-fashioned) Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.
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(old-fashioned) Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.
- She was very graceful with a very Aryan face, Ringa observed, and the red and white silk sari she was wearing blended exquisitely with her small daintiness. — 1957

noun6

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(informal) A person of Caucasian (white / Northern European) ethnicity; A white non-Jew, in the broadest sense, or more narrowly defined as people of Germanic descent.
- One transmission advantage may have been that espousing Aryan-supremacist and overtly Nazi ideology could have been a roundabout way of announcing, […] — 2001
(US, informal) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
(old-fashioned) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
(old-fashioned) A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.
(old-fashioned, historical) An Indo-Aryan.
(old-fashioned, historical) Synonym of Indo-Iranian (“member of any peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.”)

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Aryans · more Aryan · most Aryan

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