- a variant of -an: Caesarean
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-ean,
- an element used to form adjectives from nouns ending in -ea: crustacean.
- Latin -ē(us) (Greek -eios), -ae(us) (Greek -aios), -e(us) + -an
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- (forming adjectives and nouns)
belonging to or relating to; a person belonging to or coming from: European - (forming adjectives and nouns)
typical of or resembling; a person typical of: Elizabethan - (forming adjectives and nouns)
adhering to or following; an adherent of: Christian - (forming nouns)
a person who specializes or is expert in: dietitian, phonetician
'-ean' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-an
- Abbevillian
- Boolean algebra
- Boolean operation
- Boolean ring
- Boolean sum
- Carolean
- Chile-bells
- Chilean guava
- Ea
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Euclidean algorithm
- Euclidean geometry
- Euclidean group
- Euclidean space
- Getty
- Guinea
- Jamesian
- Labradorean
- New Guinea
- Oedipean
- Papua New Guinean
- Ruskin
- Saussurean
- Shakespearean sonnet
- Tacitean
- Tyrolean
- Voltaire
- Zairian
- an
- aurorean
- chile
- half-Shakespearean
- hirudinoid
- locally Euclidean space
- mingy
- nectareous
- non-Euclidean geometry
- non-Shakespearean
- post-Caesarean
- post-Cesarean
- post-Shakespearean
- pre-Shakespearean
- pro-Argentinean
- pro-Chilean
- proglottis
- pseudo-Argentinean
- pseudo-Chilean
- pseudo-Shakespearean