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Definition of Assyrian

1. Noun. An inhabitant of ancient Assyria.

2. Noun. The language of modern Iraq.

3. Noun. An extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia.

Definition of Assyrian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.

Definition of Assyrian

1. Noun. A person who resided in the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur. ¹

2. Noun. A citizen of an ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur. ¹

4. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Assyrian

Astacidae Astacura Astaire Astalak Astana Aster acuminatus Aster arenosus Aster cordifolius Aster divaricatus

Literary usage of Assyrian

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"From this harmony between the Egyptian and assyrian delineations, both in the simpler and in the more elaborate forms, a corresponding diversity of forms ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Esarhaddon also invaded Arabia, penetrating to its very centre, through hundreds of miles of sandy lands which no other assyrian monarch had penetrated ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"The mixed style combines the assyrian and Egyptian figures. The bowls must be compared with those discovered by General di Cesnola in Cyprus, ..."

4. The Methodist Review (1890)
"To men who teach assyrian it comes with the hope that the days of laborious and unsatisfactory dictation of assyrian grammar are past; to men who teach ..."

5. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1889)
"Final short vowels, moreover, are as common in assyrian as in ... The accusative, too, is regularly distinguished in assyrian, as well as the subjunctive or ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This class of ornament is distinctly Phoenician, and shows a predominance, sometimes of assyrian, sometimes of Egyptian influence (see fig. 18). ..."

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