PHRYGIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phrygian mean? 

• PHRYGIAN (noun)
  The noun PHRYGIAN has 2 senses:

1. a native or inhabitant of Phrygia

2. a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions

  Familiarity information: PHRYGIAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHRYGIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Phrygia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Phrygian"):

Colossian (a native or inhabitant of the city of Colossae in ancient Phrygia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Thraco-Phrygian (an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian)