Aryan
/ˈæɹiən/ noun C2- A person of Caucasian (white / Northern European) ethnicity; A white non-Jew, in the broadest sense, or more narrowly defined as people of Germanic descent.
- A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
- An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
- A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.
- Synonym of Indo-Iranian (“member of any peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.”)
- An Indo-Aryan.
Plural Aryans
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