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Cottonian

UK/kɒˈtəʊ.ni.ən/US/kɑˈtoʊ.ni.ən/

Cottonian adjective: of or relating to Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington (1571–1631), antiquarian and bibliophile whose Cotton library became the basis of the British Library.

Adjective

Cottonian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington (1571–1631), antiquarian and bibliophile whose Cotton library became the basis of the British Library.
  2. Of or relating to the Cotton Library or texts originally of that library.
    • Twenty-six years later occurred the disastrous fire in which so many of the Cottonian MSS. were either destroyed or, as the Beowulf MS., damaged.1914, A.J. Wyatt and R.W. Chambers, Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1968, page x

Origin of Cottonian

From Cotton + -ian.

Words that rhyme with Cottonian

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Questions about Cottonian

What does Cottonian mean?
Cottonian means of or relating to Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington (1571–1631), antiquarian and bibliophile whose Cotton library became the basis of the British Library.
What part of speech is Cottonian?
Cottonian is an adjective.
How do you pronounce Cottonian?
Cottonian is pronounced /kɒˈtəʊ.ni.ən/ (UK).

Words near Cottonian in the dictionary

  1. cottonfield
  2. cottonfields
  3. cottongrass
  4. cottongrasses
  5. cottongum
  6. Cottonian
  7. cottoning
  8. cottoning on
  9. cottoning on to
  10. cottoning onto
  11. cottoning to

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