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Ausonian

/ɔːˈsəʊni.ən/

Ausonian adjective: of ancient Ausonia or the Ausonians.

Adjective

Ausonian (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of ancient Ausonia or the Ausonians.
    • Sometimes they marked the form of the silk-haired and graceful capella, with its wreathing horn and bright grey eye—which, still beneath Ausonian skies, recalls the eclogues of Maro, browsing half-way up the hills; and the grapes, already purple with the smiles of the deepening summer, glowed out...1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter IX, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC
    • master of the glorious art of proud Ausonian song1887, Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson, The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian, page 172
  2. (poetic) Italian.
    • Or hollowing one hand against his ear, / To list a foot-fall, ere he saw / The wood-nymph, stay'd the Ausonian king to hear / Of wisdom and of law.1832–1833, Alfred Tennyson, “[Poems. (Published 1832.)] The Palace of Art”, in Poems, 8th edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 117
  3. Of or relating to the ancient poet Ausonius.

Noun

Ausonian (plural Ausonians)

  1. (historical) An ancient inhabitant of middle or lower Italy.
    • The Ausonians, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy, computed the day from midnight.1823, “Chronology”, in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. (poetic) An Italian.

Ausonian meaning in Bengali

Ausonian in Bengali

প্রাচীন আউসোনিয়া, আউসোনীয়দের সংক্রান্ত, ইতালীয়, প্রাচীন কবি আউসোনিয়াস সংক্রান্ত, মধ্য, নিম্ন ইতালির প্রাচীন অধিবাসী

Forms of Ausonian

pluralAusonians

Origin of Ausonian

From Latin Ausonia (“Lower Italy”), extended poetically to “Italy”, from Ancient Greek Αὐσονία (Ausonía), from Αὔσων (Aúsōn), a son of Ulysses, who is said to have settled there.

Questions about Ausonian

What does Ausonian mean?
Ausonian means of ancient Ausonia or the Ausonians.
What is Ausonian in Bengali?
Ausonian in Bengali is প্রাচীন আউসোনিয়া, আউসোনীয়দের সংক্রান্ত, ইতালীয়. See Ausonian meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Ausonian?
Ausonian can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Ausonian?
Ausonian is pronounced /ɔːˈsəʊni.ən/.

Words near Ausonian in the dictionary

  1. Ausman
  2. Ausmans
  3. Ausmus
  4. Ausmuses
  5. Ausonia
  6. Ausonian
  7. Ausonians
  8. ausonium
  9. Ausonius
  10. auspex
  11. auspicate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ausonian (page history and authors); Ausonian (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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