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Assyrians

Assyrians is the plural of Assyrian.

Meaning of Assyrian

Noun

Assyrian (plural Assyrians)

  1. (historical) A person who resided in the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.
  2. (historical) A citizen of an ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh.
  3. A person from a traditional Christian ethnic group with roots in the Middle East, who claim ancestry tracing back to the ancient Assyrians.
  4. A butterfly of the genus Terinos.

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Questions about Assyrians

What is Assyrians the plural of?
Assyrians is the plural of Assyrian.

Words near Assyrians in the dictionary

  1. Assyrianize
  2. Assyrianized
  3. Assyrianizes
  4. Assyrianizing
  5. Assyrianness
  6. Assyrians
  7. Assyriological
  8. Assyriologist
  9. Assyriologists
  10. Assyriology
  11. Assyro-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Assyrians (page history and authors); Assyrian (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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