Aryan

noun

1. 1

   informalIn reference to a pseudoscientific historical race theory: 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.

   This short sketch of the changes that take place among those races that are only the depositories of a culture also furnishes a picture of the development and the activity and the disappearance of those who are the true founders of culture on this earth, namely the Aryans themselves.

   One transmission advantage may have been that espousing Aryan-supremacist and overtly Nazi ideology could have been a roundabout way of announcing, […]

   The point is not that southern Republicans are edging toward Aryan-supremacist views but that the rhetoric of their campaigns and some of their political […]

2. 2

   informalIn reference to a pseudoscientific historical race theory: A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.

3. 3

   datedIn reference to a pseudoscientific historical race theory: An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.

4. 4

   datedIn reference to a pseudoscientific historical race theory: A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.

   [The] Caucasian race includes two sub-races, — the Xantho-chroic and Melanochroic of Huxley. The seat of this race is Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, its linguistic division being into Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.

5. 5

   datedSynonym of Indo-Iranian (“member of any peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.”)

6. 6

   datedSynonym of Indo-Iranian (“member of any peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.”) An Indo-Aryan.

   The theories of advocates of an autochthonous origin of the Indo-Aryans (always called "Aryans") range from (1) a mild version, insisting on the origin of the Ṛgvedic Indo-Aryans in the Panjab, the "autochthonous" or indigenous school…

adjective

1. 1

   Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.

2. 2

   informalPertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.

   Neo-Nazis use Nordic religions to fashion a more noble Aryan past and a modern Pan-Aryan community. Symbols from and references to ancient spirituality pepper neo-Nazi literature.

3. 3

   informalPertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.

   Imagine our outrage if the foreign press depicted Aryan groups as representing mainstream Christianity.

4. 4

   datedOf or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.

   She was very graceful with a very Aryan face, Ringa observed, and the red and white silk sari she was wearing blended exquisitely with her small daintiness.

5. 5

   datedOf or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.

proper noun

1. 1

   The language of the original Aryans.

2. 2

   A male given name of Indian usage.

Forms

plural

Aryans

comparative

more Aryan

superlative

most Aryan