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Ian
1[ ee-uhn, ee-ahn, ahy-uhn ]
-ian
2- a suffix with the same meaning and properties as -an, though -ian is now the more productive of the two suffixes in recent coinages, especially when the base noun ends in a consonant: Orwellian; Washingtonian .
-ian
suffix
- a variant of -an
Johnsonian
Etonian
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of Ian1
Example Sentences
Procurement specialist Ian Makgill told us he believes not owning the IPR to the Horizon software would have been a factor in the collapse of the 2016 IBM deal to replace the system.
Ian Johnston, 60, regularly makes a 200-mile round trip from Carlisle to join Sheena's lessons.
Ian contacted the BBC through Your Voice, Your BBC News to suggest we tell Sheena's story.
"There is nobody else who teaches quite like her," Ian added.
Ian Russell, chairman of the Molly Rose Foundation - which was set up in memory of his daughter who took her own life aged 14 - said he was "dismayed by the lack of ambition" in the codes.
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