AURELIUS

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• AURELIUS (noun)
  The noun AURELIUS has 1 sense:

1. Emperor of Rome; nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antonius Pius; Stoic philosopher; the decline of the Roman Empire began under Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

  Familiarity information: AURELIUS used as a noun is very rare.

• AURELIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emperor of Rome; nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antonius Pius; Stoic philosopher; the decline of the Roman Empire began under Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Antoninus; Aurelius; Marcus Annius Verus; Marcus Aurelius; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Instance hypernyms:

Emperor of Rome; Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Roman Empire)

 Context examples 

But the thought had hardly formed itself in my mind before he had dropped his serious vein, and was chatting away about some new silver-mounted harness which he intended to spring upon the Mall, and about the match for a thousand guineas which he meant to make between his filly Ethelberta and Lord Doncaster’s famous three-year-old Aurelius.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)