[air-ee-uh
n, ar-] 
| 1. | of or pertaining to Arius or Arianism. |
| 2. | an adherent of Arianism. |
| a suffix forming personal nouns corresponding to Latin adjectives ending in -ārius or English adjectives or nouns ending in -ary (librarian; proletarian; Rotarian; seminarian; sexagenarian; veterinarian); subsequently productive in English with other Latinate stems, forming nouns denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; establishmentarian; totalitarian; vegetarian. |
[air-ee-uhn, air-yuhn, ar-] | 1. | Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European. |
| 2. | (in Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. of Nordic stock. |
| 3. | (formerly) Indo-European. |
| 4. | (formerly) Indo-Iranian. |
| 5. | of or pertaining to an Aryan or the Aryans. |
| 6. | (formerly) Indo-European. |
| 7. | (formerly) Indo-Iranian. |
| Ar·i·an 1 (âr'ē-ən, ār'-) adj.
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| Ar·i·an 2 (ār'ē-ən, âr'-) n. One who is born under the sign of Aries. Ar'i·an adj. |