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Lyd⋅i⋅an

  [lid-ee-uhn]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to Lydia.
2. (of music) softly or sensuously sweet; voluptuous.
–noun
3. an inhabitant of Lydia.
4. an Anatolian language of Lydia, written in a modified Greek alphabet.
Origin:
1535–45; Lydi(a) + -an
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Lyd·i·an   (lĭd'ē-ən)   
adj.  Of or relating to Lydia or its people, language, or culture.
n.  

  1. A native or inhabitant of Lydia.

  2. A language of the extinct Anatolian branch of Indo-European, found in inscriptions of the fourth century B.C. in western Turkey.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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