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Definition of Shavian

1. Noun. An admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.

Definition of Shavian

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works. ¹

2. Noun. An admirer of Shaw, or an advocate of his ideas. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shavian

Sharon fruit Sharon fruits Sharpey Sharpey's fibres Sharpey-Schafer Sharpness Shasta Shasta salamander Shastan Shatneresque

Shatnerian Shaun Shauna Shavaughn Shaver's disease Shavian (current term) Shavian alphabet Shavians Shavon Shavonne

Shavous Shavuos Shavuot Shavuoth Shaw Shawism Shawisms Shawn Shawna Shawnee

Literary usage of Shavian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bernard Shaw by Holbrook Jackson (1907)
"They are the parents of all those children of his imagination, those distinctly Shavian types, whose existence in his plays are among the most distinct ..."

2. The Bookman (1905)
"... in his Quintessence of Ibsen- ism, and the student of the Shavian drama could not find a better key to the Shavian philosophy than this short treatise. ..."

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