Word.ws English Dictionary

Beethovian

Beethovian adjective: of or pertaining to Ludwig van Beethoven, in particular his style of music.

Adjective

Beethovian (comparative more Beethovian, superlative most Beethovian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Ludwig van Beethoven, in particular his style of music.

Forms of Beethovian

comparativemore Beethovian
superlativemost Beethovian
alternative formBeethovenian

Origin of Beethovian

From Beethoven (“a surname”) + -ian, alluding to composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).

Questions about Beethovian

What does Beethovian mean?
Beethovian means of or pertaining to Ludwig van Beethoven, in particular his style of music.
What part of speech is Beethovian?
Beethovian is an adjective.

Words near Beethovian in the dictionary

  1. Beethoven
  2. Beethovenesque
  3. Beethovenian
  4. Beethoveniana
  5. Beethovenish
  6. Beethovian
  7. beetle
  8. beetle bank
  9. beetle banks
  10. beetle brow
  11. beetle brows

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Beethovian (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Beethovian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/beethovian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.