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Æsopian

Æsopian is the archaic form of Aesopian.

Meaning of Aesopian

Adjective

Aesopian (comparative more Aesopian, superlative most Aesopian)

  1. (not comparable) Related to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop.
  2. (comparable) Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables.
  3. (comparable) Employing or having an ambiguous or allegorical meaning, especially a political meaning.
    • When a government makes it impossible for people to talk about actions of the government that the population rejects, as often happened in Soviet times, those who still want to talk about such things and to bring to the attention of others their thoughts routinely turn to Aesopian language.2026 January 29, Paul A. Goble, “Aesopian Language Lives – Baikal Portal Carries Major Article on How Another Russian War to Annex Foreign Territory Sparked a Revolution at Home”, in Window on Eurasia

Forms of Æsopian

comparativemore Æsopian
superlativemost Æsopian

Questions about Æsopian

What is Æsopian the archaic form of?
Æsopian is the archaic form of Aesopian.

Words near Æsopian in the dictionary

  1. æsh
  2. æshes
  3. Æsir
  4. Æsop
  5. Æsopean
  6. Æsopian
  7. æsteem
  8. æsteemed
  9. æsteeming
  10. æsteems
  11. æstheses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Æsopian (page history and authors); Aesopian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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