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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aryan \Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), a. Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aryan \Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), n. [Skr. [=a]rya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia.] 1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Aryan adj : of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations" [syn: {Indo-European}, {Indo-Aryan}, {Aryan}] n 1: (according to Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian person of Nordic descent [syn: {Aryan}] 2: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European [syn: {Aryan}, {Indo-European}]
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