ATHENIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Athenian mean? 

• ATHENIAN (noun)
  The noun ATHENIAN has 1 sense:

1. a resident of Athens

  Familiarity information: ATHENIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• ATHENIAN (adjective)
  The adjective ATHENIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants

  Familiarity information: ATHENIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATHENIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A resident of Athens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Athenian" is a kind of...):

Greek; Hellene (a native or inhabitant of Greece)

Instance hyponyms:

Alcibiades (ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC))

Demosthenes (Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC))

Draco (Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC))

Socrates (ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC))

Holonyms ("Athenian" is a member of...):

Athens; Athinai; capital of Greece; Greek capital (the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess))

Derivation:

Athenian (of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants)

• ATHENIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Athens (the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess))

Derivation:

Athenian (a resident of Athens)

Athens (the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess))

Athens (a university town in northeast Georgia)

Athens (a town in southeast Ohio)

 Context examples 

He was young—perhaps from twenty- eight to thirty—tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)