ASSYRIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Assyrian mean? 

• ASSYRIAN (noun)
  The noun ASSYRIAN has 3 senses:

1. an inhabitant of ancient Assyria

2. the language of modern Iraq

3. an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia

  Familiarity information: ASSYRIAN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSYRIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inhabitant of ancient Assyria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The language of modern Iraq

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Assyrian; Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

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

Aramaic (a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia)

Domain region:

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Assyrian; Assyrian Akkadian

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

Akkadian (an ancient branch of the Semitic languages)

Domain region:

Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)

 Context examples 

Dr Worthington is an Assyriologist who specialises in Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian grammar, literature and medicine.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

He threw back his head, and there he stood in the golden glow with all his old Assyrian luxuriance of beard, all his native insolence of drooping eyelids and intolerant eyes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had the face and beard which I associate with an Assyrian bull; the former florid, the latter so black as almost to have a suspicion of blue, spade-shaped and rippling down over his chest.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)