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  Arian

  adjective

  of or relating to Arius or Arianism.
• -arian
  -arian

  a suffix forming personal nouns corresponding to Latin adjectives ending in -ārius or English adjectives or nouns ending in -ary (librarian; proletarian; Rotarian; seminarian; sexagenarian; veterinarian ); subsequently productive in English with other Latinate stems, forming nouns denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; establishmentarian; totalitarian; vegetarian .

Arian

¹ American  

[air-ee-uhn, ar-] / ˈɛər i ən, ˈær- /

adjective

1. of or relating to Arius or Arianism.

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noun

1. an adherent of Arianism.

-arian ² American  

1. a suffix forming personal nouns corresponding to Latin adjectives ending in -ārius or English adjectives or nouns ending in -ary (librarian; proletarian; Rotarian; seminarian; sexagenarian; veterinarian ); subsequently productive in English with other Latinate stems, forming nouns denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; establishmentarian; totalitarian; vegetarian .

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Arian ¹ British  

/ ˈɛərɪən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characterizing Arius or Arianism

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noun

1. an adherent of Arianism

adjective

1. a variant spelling of Aryan

-arian ² British  

suffix

1. indicating a person or thing that advocates, believes, or is associated with something

   vegetarian

   millenarian

   librarian

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Etymology

Origin of Arian¹

1525–35; < Late Latin Ariānus of, pertaining to Arius; see -an

Origin of -arian²

< Latin -āri ( us ) or -ary + -an

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Arian

“Plaintiff was the only student selected to remain after others left, yet no one checked on her whereabouts during lunch and no one looked for Scott and plaintiff while they were alone,” Arian wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Arian Campo-Flores reports for the Journal on a wondrous and rare phenomenon occurring in the Sunshine State.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The 21-year-old, appearing in his first Games, was beaten 2-1 in a tight contest by Iran's Arian Salimi.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024

Arian Moayed, who played the investor Stewy Hosseini in “Succession” and starred in a Broadway revival of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” last year, theorized that the show had some theater-like attributes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

To grasp this point one only has to think of Pascal and Newton, the first a Jansenist and the second an Arian.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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