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is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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| -an, -ean or -ian | |
| —suffix | |
| 1. | (forming adjectives and nouns) belonging to or relating to; a person belonging to or coming from: European |
| 2. | (forming adjectives and nouns) typical of or resembling; a person typical of: Elizabethan |
| 3. | (forming adjectives and nouns) adhering to or following; an adherent of: Christian |
| 4. | (forming nouns) a person who specializes or is expert in: dietitian; phonetician |
| [from Latin -ānus, suffix of adjectives] | |
| -ean, -ean or -ian | |
| —suffix | |
| [from Latin -ānus, suffix of adjectives] | |
| -ian, -ean or -ian | |
| —suffix | |
| [from Latin -ānus, suffix of adjectives] | |
| -ian | |
| —suffix | |
| a variant of -an : Etonian; Johnsonian | |
| [from Latin -iānus] | |
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Example sentences from the web
They were very close, and when ian was home they did practically everything together.
Ian often took alex around the world to educate him about other cultures.
For further cases of remembering information from past lives, see ian stevenson.
Ian farmer is the station manager, the boss of the local studios.
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