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Iberian

/ˌaɪˈbɪə.ɹi.ən/

Iberian adjective: native to Iberia.

Adjective

Iberian (comparative more Iberian, superlative most Iberian)

  1. Native to Iberia.
  2. Of or pertaining to Iberia.
    • The store clerk scribbles himself a to-do note and lifts the stylus back to the start of “¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?,” lowers the needle onto shimmering black vinyl, and dreams of Jewish shepherd boys plucking their lyres on starlit Iberian hillsides.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119

Noun

Iberian (countable and uncountable, plural Iberians)

  1. (countable) A native of modern-day Iberia (the European peninsula): a person native to Spain, Portugal, Andorra, or Gibraltar,.
  2. (historical, in plural) An ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, at least from the 6th century BCE.
  3. (countable) A Georgian (person from the country in Eurasia).

Proper noun

Iberian

  1. An extinct language isolate that was spoken in the Iberian peninsula.
    • Whereas the presence of Etruscan [in southern France] was likely the result of Etruscan traders settling in the area relatively recently, Iberian appears to have been the prevalent language, at least in the southwesternmost parts of what is now the French Mediterranean coast.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 518

Iberian meaning in Bengali

Iberian in Bengali

পর্তুগাল, আন্ডোরা, অথবা জিব্রাল্টারের অধিবাসী, জর্জিয়া দেশের একজন ব্যক্তি

Forms of Iberian

Adjective
comparativemore Iberian
superlativemost Iberian
Noun
pluralIberians

Origin of Iberian

From Iberia + -an.

Words formed from Iberian

Phrases with Iberian

Words that rhyme with Iberian

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Iberian

What does Iberian mean?
Iberian means native to Iberia.
What is Iberian in Bengali?
Iberian in Bengali is পর্তুগাল, আন্ডোরা, অথবা জিব্রাল্টারের অধিবাসী. See Iberian meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Iberian?
Iberian can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Iberian?
Iberian is pronounced /ˌaɪˈbɪə.ɹi.ən/.

Words near Iberian in the dictionary

  1. iberdomide
  2. Iberes
  3. Iberi
  4. Iberia
  5. Iberia Parish
  6. Iberian
  7. Iberian chiffchaff
  8. Iberian chiffchaffs
  9. Iberian desman
  10. Iberian desmans
  11. Iberian ibex

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Iberian (page history and authors); Iberian (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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