Aryan
- Noun. (context, theosophy) A member of an (alleged) master race comprised of non-Jewish Caucasians, especially those of Nordic or Germanic descent.
- Noun. (context, Nazi or white supremacist ideology) A person of Caucasian ethnicity; a white non-Jew.
- Noun. (chiefly, US) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
- Noun. (dated) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
- Noun. (dated) An Indo-Iranian.
- Noun. (context, ethnography) A subdivision of the Caucasian race, which comprised the Aryans, the Semites, and the Hamites, or the accompanying linguistic subdivision.
- Adjective. Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
- Adjective. (context, neo-Nazi or white supremacist ideology) Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.
- Adjective. (US, informal) Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.
- Adjective. Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.
- Adjective. (dated) Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.
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