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Freirian

Freirian is the alternative form of Freirean.

Meaning of Freirean

Adjective

Freirean (comparative more Freirean, superlative most Freirean)

  1. Of or relating to Paulo Freire (1921–1997), Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.

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Forms of Freirian

comparativemore Freirian
superlativemost Freirian

Origin of Freirian

From Freire + -ian.

Questions about Freirian

What is Freirian the alternative form of?
Freirian is the alternative form of Freirean.

Words near Freirian in the dictionary

  1. freind
  2. Freire
  3. Freirean
  4. Freireans
  5. Freires
  6. Freirian
  7. Freirina
  8. freirinite
  9. Freising
  10. freit
  11. Freitag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Freirian (page history and authors); Freirean (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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