aryan
IPA: ˈɑriʌn
Root Word: Aryan
noun
- (theosophy, Germanic mysticism, Nazism) A member of an alleged master race with no fixed definition, comprising people of Germanic descent (in the narrowest sense), or all non-Jewish Caucasians (in the broadest sense)
- (Nazism or white supremacy, informal) A person of Caucasian (white / European) ethnicity; a white non-Jew.
- (chiefly US, informal, euphemistic) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
- (dated) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
- (dated) An Indo-Iranian.
- (ethnography, dated) A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.
- The language of the original Aryans.
adjective
- Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
- (neo-Nazi or white supremacist ideology, informal) Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.
- (US, informal, euphemistic) Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.
- Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.
- (dated) Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.
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Examples of "aryan" in Sentences
- They believe in the purity of the Aryan race.
- Plus, the oldest record of the Aryans is the Vedas.
- But I'm no Aryan nor a believer in Aryan mythology.
- He escaped through the sewage system in the Aryan sector.
- The Brahmins were the priestly caste of the Aryan peoples.
- The Aryan Paragraph created a furor among some of the clergy.
- The Age of Cancer Capricorn marks the beginning of the Aryan Epoch.
- The primary appeal of the party was to gay Aryans in the subculture.
- The population is mainly Indo Aryan from the anthropological point of view.
- In Theosophy, the Manu is regarded as the progenitor of the Aryan root race.
- The problem with the word aryan, is it has become cynonomous with white power groups.
- Why on earth would anyone stand in the back of a car, with swept back "aryan" blond locks
- They didn't believe in reincarnation, or that they had somehow earned their "aryan" greatness.
- The other name aryan nation is just sick though and the parents must be rather ill in the head.
- Secondly, is it me or does Adolf need a haircut and aren't his eyes REALLY dark for someone whose parents are wanting an "aryan" race?
- The old iranian mythology was very similar to the 'aryan' hindu mythology, right down to names of different gods, and whats more, the word 'iran' was derived from the root 'arya'.
- It seems to me, as to many others, to be the best synthesis so far achieved of the "aryan" and southern cultures of our land. maharashtrians have an essential earthiness and simplicity reinforced by a basic honesty and goodness.
- He did reiterate that birthers are part of the group that is against the bill and are attacking president However, when I asked the Senator from Rhode Island what he meant by describing those who do not support the bill as "aryan," he responded
- He did reiterate that birthers are part of the group that is against the bill and are attacking president However, when I asked the Senator from Rhode Island what he meant by describing those who do not support the bill as "aryan," he responded "No, I didn't say that …. again, pay attention to the speech."
- The 'rig vedas', or the oldest hindu holy texts, told of invaders or migrators who had come from a land to the north (this was an 'aryan' text so essentially they were speaking about themselves) and brought the 'arya dharma' to india, indicated they were light skinned where as the pre-existing inhabitants of india were dark-skinned, and these original inhabitants were conquered by military superiority.
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