adrian

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A male given name from Latin or Etruscan.

   “Which, of he, or Adrian, for a good wager, / Firſt begins to crow ?”

   “"My only worth will be in always remembering to do the thing that pleases you; and yet, although I don't really like Adie, it has a more home-like, more whisperable sound than Adrian. Adrian is a grand, heroic sort of a name, yet what a beautiful name it is.”

   “His baptismal register spoke of him pessimistically as John Henry, but he had left that behind with the other maladies of infancy, and his friends knew him under the front-name of Adrian.”

   “I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?”

2. (countable, rare, uncountable)A female given name from Latin (compare Adriana, Adrianna, Adrienne).
3. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
4. (countable, uncountable)A village in Livada, Satu Mare County, Romania.
5. (countable, uncountable)A village in Gurghiu, Mureș County, Romania.
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24. (countable, uncountable)A neighborhood of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.

adj

1. Relating to the Adriatic Sea.

   “Adrian billows”