Word.ws English Dictionary

Eleutherians

Eleutherians is the plural of Eleutherian.

Meaning of Eleutherian

Noun (1)

Eleutherian (plural Eleutherians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Eleutherae, an ancient city and fortress between Attica and Boeotia.
    • This Valley belonged in very ancient times to the Eleutherians; who being subjećt to those of Thebes, out of an inveterated hatred and emulation revolted from them and join'd themselves to the Athenians, as was pretended out of a great fancy and good affection they took to their way of Government.1682, George Wheler, Journey Into Greece. 6 Books with Variety of Sculptures, page 474

Noun (2)

Eleutherian (plural Eleutherians)

  1. A member of a splinter group of puritans led by Cotton Mather.
    • True ELEUTHERIANS will consider, how far any further Agreement may be Necessary: And whether those unreasonable Sons of Procrustes, the Narrow-soul'd and Imperious Bigots for Uniforming, will do Religion any real Service, by the pressing of it.1726, Cotton Mather, Ratio Disciplina Fratrum Nov-Anglorum

See all 7 meanings of Eleutherian

Questions about Eleutherians

What is Eleutherians the plural of?
Eleutherians is the plural of Eleutherian.

Words near Eleutherians in the dictionary

  1. eleutherarchs
  2. Eleuthereus
  3. eleutheri
  4. Eleutheria
  5. Eleutherian
  6. Eleutherians
  7. eleutherin
  8. eleutherism
  9. Eleutherius
  10. eleuthero
  11. eleutherodactylid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Eleutherians (page history and authors); Eleutherian (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: “Eleutherians.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eleutherians. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.