Arthurian

American  

[ahr-thoor-ee-uhn] / ɑrˈθʊər i ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to King Arthur, who, with his knights, formed the subject of a large part of medieval romance.

   Arthurian legends.

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Arthurian British  

/ ɑːˈθjʊərɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

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Other Word Forms

• pre-Arthurian
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Arthurian

First recorded in 1850–55; Arthur + -ian

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Arthurian

The species name combines a nod to Arthurian legend with a personal tribute.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

And the first image they put on screen was Redford as Roy Hobbs in “The Natural,” Barry Levinson’s Arthurian baseball fable that sits alongside “Field of Dreams” in Dad Movie Canon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

The show, a Monty Python-inspired spoof of Arthurian legend, first opened on Broadway in 2005, won the Tony Award for best musical, ran for four years, and has been widely staged since then.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

A bookseller named Chester recalls getting an early galley of Nicola Griffith’s feminist retelling of the Arthurian legend “Spear,” “and having to wait a year to start recommending it was agony.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from Tennyson and people of that sort, would have been startled to see that the famous lovers were past their prime.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White