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Chateaubriandian

Chateaubriandian adjective: of or relating to François-René de Chateaubriand.

Adjective

Chateaubriandian (comparative more Chateaubriandian, superlative most Chateaubriandian)

  1. Of or relating to François-René de Chateaubriand.
    • [...] his Chateaubriandian love of the dead and of the graveyard atmosphere [...]1939, An Approach to a Price Theory for a Changing Economy, page 79
    • In good Chateaubriandian manner, Stendhal wrote his “promenades dans Rome” in his Paris apartment, across the Rue Richelieu from the Bibliothèque Nationale, from which his cousin would bring him other writers’ memoirs of Rome for...inspiration.1984, John Joseph, “I-Tinerary: The Romantic Travel Journal after Chateaubriand”, in South Central Review, volume 1, number 1/2, →DOI, page 47

Forms of Chateaubriandian

comparativemore Chateaubriandian
superlativemost Chateaubriandian

Origin of Chateaubriandian

Chateaubriand + -ian

Questions about Chateaubriandian

What does Chateaubriandian mean?
Chateaubriandian means of or relating to François-René de Chateaubriand.
What part of speech is Chateaubriandian?
Chateaubriandian is an adjective.

Words near Chateaubriandian in the dictionary

  1. chateau migraine
  2. chateau migraines
  3. chateau potatoes
  4. Chateaubelair
  5. chateaubriand
  6. Chateaubriandian
  7. chateaubriands
  8. chateaulike
  9. Chateauroux
  10. chateaus
  11. chateaux

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