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Definition of Armenian
1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Armenia.
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Armenia or the people or culture of Armenia.
3. Noun. The Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan.
Generic synonyms: Indo-european, Indo-european Language, Indo-hittite
4. Noun. A writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written.
Definition of Armenian
1. a. Of or pertaining to Armenia.
2. n. A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.
Definition of Armenian
1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet. ¹
2. Noun. A person from Armenia or of Armenian descent. ¹
3. Proper noun. The language of Armenia and the Armenian people, whose older stages are Old Armenian and Middle Armenian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armenian
Literary usage of Armenian
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 (1908)
"The printing plant for armenian, Turkish, and Greek was removed from Malta to
Smyrna in ... A translation of the Bible into modem armenian, by Elias Riggs, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"A peculiarity about the armenian Church is that the majority of great feasts
falling upon ... In the armenian Church Saturday is observed as the Sabbath, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modernby Charles Dudley Warner by Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"... Pasha (1793-1862), a Turkish official of high rank, and a poet greatly esteemed
by the Turks 43 597 CHRONOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS armenian Literature has a ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The armenian soldiers, too, have suffered the same fate. ... We have certain
knowledge that the armenian soldiers of the province of Erzerum, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There were abortive attempts to unite the armenian church with the Byzantine ...
They retain their armenian liturgies and rites, pruned to suit the Vatican ..."