Phrygian
[fridʒiәn]
Definition
(noun.) a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
Editor: Winthrop--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
(n.) A Montanist.
Typed by Lena
Definition
adj. pertaining to Phrygia in Asia Minor or to the Phrygians.—n. a native of Phrygia: a Montanist.—Phrygian cap a conical cap with the top turned forward.
Typed by Humphrey
Examples
- We have noted how the Keltic peoples drizzled westward, how the Italians, the Greeks, and their Epirote, Macedonian, and Phrygian kindred came south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Quite the reverse, he replied; and if so the Dorian and the Phrygian are the only ones which you have left. Plato. The Republic.
- And these, he replied, are the Dorian and Phrygian harmonies of which I was just now speaking. Plato. The Republic.
- Such were the Phrygians, a people whose language was almost as close to that of the Greeks as the Macedonian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Susan