| n. | 1. | One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic. |
| 2. | The language of the original Aryans. | |
| 3. | (Nazism) a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; - a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis. | |
| a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; |
| Noun | 1. | Aryan - (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew) |
| 2. | Aryan - a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European Synonyms: Indo-European | |
| Adj. | 1. | Aryan - of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations" Synonyms: Indo-Aryan, Indo-European |
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