From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Aryan \Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), n. [Skr. [=a]rya
excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran,
and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this
people, at least in Asia.]
1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in
prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian
Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan
Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang
the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic,
Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological
division of mankind called also Indo-European or
Indo-Germanic.
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2. The language of the original Aryans. [Written also
{Arian}.]
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3. (Nazism) a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; -- a
classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological
basis. [Written also {Arian}.]
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Aryan \Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), a.
Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European;
Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Aryan
adj 1: of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-
European migrations" [syn: {Indo-European}, {Indo-Aryan},
{Aryan}]
n 1: (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic
descent (and not a Jew)
2: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo
European [syn: {Aryan}, {Indo-European}]
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