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Ian

1

[ ee-uhn, ee-ahn, ahy-uhn ]

noun

  1. a male given name, Scottish form of John.


-ian

2
  1. 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

  1. a variant of -an

    Johnsonian

    Etonian

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ian1

Extracted from Latin loanwords in which -Գܲ (adjective suffix) is joined to stems ending in i; -an
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ian1

from Latin -Գܲ
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

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.

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Ian Johnston, 60, regularly makes a 200-mile round trip from Carlisle to join Sheena's lessons.

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Ian contacted the BBC through Your Voice, Your BBC News to suggest we tell Sheena's story.

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"There is nobody else who teaches quite like her," Ian added.

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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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