Word.ws English Dictionary

Ellisonian

Ellisonian adjective: of or relating to Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer.

Adjective

Ellisonian (comparative more Ellisonian, superlative most Ellisonian)

  1. Of or relating to Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer.

Forms of Ellisonian

comparativemore Ellisonian
superlativemost Ellisonian

Origin of Ellisonian

From Ellison + -ian.

Questions about Ellisonian

What does Ellisonian mean?
Ellisonian means of or relating to Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer.
What part of speech is Ellisonian?
Ellisonian is an adjective.

Words near Ellisonian in the dictionary

  1. ellisize
  2. ellisized
  3. ellisizes
  4. ellisizing
  5. Ellison
  6. Ellisonian
  7. Ellisor
  8. Elliston
  9. Ellistons
  10. Ellistown
  11. Ellistown and Battleflat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ellisonian (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: “Ellisonian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ellisonian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.