Tiberian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
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of or relating to the Sea of Tiberias.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Tiberian
Tiberi(us) or Tiberi(as) + -an; compare Latin Tiberiānus
Example Sentences
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This collection includes faithful recreations of Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, and three expansions.
From The Verge ● Jun. 2, 2022
The language Translator Lenard uses is generally of Tiberian vintage, seldom earlier than Augustus, seldom later than Pliny, but the verse forms he employs are those of medieval doggerel, which he writes with distinction.
From Time Magazine Archive
You must get round the Tiberian librarian; you will have to spend something on the matter; and when I return to town, I shall expect to go shares with him.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
That Peter, the senior member of the apostolic council, was given a position of presidency, appears from the Savior's special admonition and charge on the shores of the Tiberian sea.—
From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by Talmage, James Edward
His was not a nature, if there be any such, that could endure the solitude of supremacy without impair, and he foreboded with reason a Tiberian old age.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell
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