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Definition of Cyprian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture. "Cypriote monasteries"
Partainyms: Cyprus, Cyprus, Cyprus
Derivative terms: Cyprus, Cypriot, Cypriote
2. Noun. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.
Specialized synonyms: Call Girl, Camp Follower, Comfort Woman, Ianfu, Demimondaine, Floozie, Floozy, Hooker, Hustler, Slattern, Street Girl, Streetwalker, White Slave
Generic synonyms: Adult Female, Woman
Derivative terms: Bawdy, Prostitute, Whore, Whore, Whoredom
3. Adjective. Resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus.
4. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.
Group relationships: Cyprus
Generic synonyms: European
Derivative terms: Cypriot, Cypriote
Definition of Cyprian
1. a. Belonging to Cyprus.
2. n. A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.
Definition of Cyprian
1. Noun. (archaic) Cypriot ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A lewd woman; a harlot. ¹
3. Adjective. (archaic) Cypriot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cyprian
1. a prostitute [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyprian
Literary usage of Cyprian
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 (1909)
"(the see was vacant at that time) wrote to Cyprian in terms of disapproval.
Cyprian rejoined that he fled in accordance with visions and the divine command. ..."
2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, K. F. Th Schneider (1853)
"Cyprian permitted Felicissimus to retain his office ; whether it was out of deference
... And in the repulsive ^answer which Cyprian gave to their petition, ..."
3. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"Cyprian did little more in literature than to adapt the style of ... The works
of Cyprian are translated in the Oxford Library of the Fathers, 1840, ..."
4. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler (1866)
"Cyprian and Justina in a beautiful Greek poem, consisting of three books, ...
But we have still extant the con. fession of St. Cyprian, written by himself, ..."
5. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1843)
"And we must observe that, if she had succeeded, father Cyprian would most ...
Père Cyprian soon after began to give the princess Henrietta a regular private ..."
6. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Novatianus, Allan Menzies (1868)
"They inform Cyprian that they had returned to the church. Maximus, Urbanus,
Sidonius, and Macharius, to Cyprian their brother, greeting. ..."
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