Aryan

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

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