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Esopean

Esopean is the dated form of Aesopian.

Meaning of Aesopian

Adjective

Aesopian (comparative more Aesopian, superlative most Aesopian)

  1. (not comparable) Related to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop.
  2. (comparable) Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables.
  3. (comparable) Employing or having an ambiguous or allegorical meaning, especially a political meaning.
    • When a government makes it impossible for people to talk about actions of the government that the population rejects, as often happened in Soviet times, those who still want to talk about such things and to bring to the attention of others their thoughts routinely turn to Aesopian language.2026 January 29, Paul A. Goble, “Aesopian Language Lives – Baikal Portal Carries Major Article on How Another Russian War to Annex Foreign Territory Sparked a Revolution at Home”, in Window on Eurasia

Questions about Esopean

What is Esopean the dated form of?
Esopean is the dated form of Aesopian.

Words near Esopean in the dictionary

  1. esomin
  2. esomins
  3. esonarthex
  4. esonarthexes
  5. ESOP
  6. Esopean
  7. esophag-
  8. esophagal
  9. esophagalgia
  10. esophagastric
  11. esophageal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Esopean (page history and authors); Aesopian (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.

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