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Adrian

[ey-dree-uh n]
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noun

Edgar Douglas,1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
(Gilbert),1903–59, U.S. fashion and costume designer.
Hadrian.
a city in SE Michigan.
a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “from Hadria,” an ancient city in northern Italy.

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Adrian I

or Hadrian I

noun

died a.d. 795, pope 772–795.

Adrian II

or Hadrian II

noun

Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 867–872.

Adrian III

or Hadrian III

noun

Saint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.

Adrian IV

or Hadrian IV

noun

Nicholas Breakspear, c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.

Adrian V

or Hadrian V

noun

died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.

Adrian VI

or Hadrian VI

noun

1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.
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Historical Examples of adrian

  • To discover the artist and Enid's address was for Adrian the work of a few minutes.

    A Great Man

    Arnold Bennett

  • Was Adrian thinking of his kind master, or of his master's daughter?

    In Kings' Byways

    Stanley J. Weyman

  • Adrian tried this cautiously, with little hope of being heard.

    In Kings' Byways

    Stanley J. Weyman

  • Here the clerk Adrian presently found him, and murmured some apology.

    In Kings' Byways

    Stanley J. Weyman

  • I hastened with my papers to Lieutenant Adrian, who glanced over them contemptuously.

    Kilgorman

    Talbot Baines Reed

British Dictionary definitions for adrian

Adrian

noun

Edgar Douglas, Baron Adrian. 1889–1977, English physiologist, noted particularly for his research into the function of neurons: shared with Sherrington the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine 1932

Adrian IV

noun

original name Nicholas Breakspear. ?1100–59, the only English pope (1154–59)
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Word Origin and History for adrian

Adrian

masc. proper name, from Latin Adrianus/Hadrianus, literally "of the Adriatic" (see Adriatic).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Medicine definitions for adrian

Adrian

[ā′drē-ən]Edgar Douglas First Baron Adrian. 1889-1977

British physiologist. He shared a 1932 Nobel Prize for major advances in the understanding of the nervous and muscular systems and was one of the first to study electrical activity in the brain and nervous system.
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