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; -an

Origin of -arian²

< Latin -āri ( us ) or -ary + -an

Example Sentences

Arian Abbasi, 36, a pilot from Harrow in Greater London, has been named as one of two victims of the small aircraft crash in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

Arian Campo-Flores is an economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal, based in Miami.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Dr. Arian Mowlavi has reached a $6-million settlement with three dozen former patients, according to court records.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 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