Definition of Shavian

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

Partainyms: Shaw
Derivative terms: Shaw

2. Noun. An admirer of G. B. 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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