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Neo-Sumerian

Neo-Sumerian adjective: of or relating to the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Neo-Sumerian Empire, a 22nd- to 21st-century-BCE Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state sometimes regarded as a nascent empire.

Adjective

Neo-Sumerian (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of or relating to the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Neo-Sumerian Empire, a 22nd- to 21st-century-BCE Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state sometimes regarded as a nascent empire.

Noun

Neo-Sumerian (plural Neo-Sumerians)

  1. (historical) An inhabitant of the Neo-Sumerian Empire.

Forms of Neo-Sumerian

pluralNeo-Sumerians

Origin of Neo-Sumerian

From neo- + Sumerian.

Questions about Neo-Sumerian

What does Neo-Sumerian mean?
Neo-Sumerian means of or relating to the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Neo-Sumerian Empire, a 22nd- to 21st-century-BCE Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state sometimes regarded as a nascent empire.
What part of speech is Neo-Sumerian?
Neo-Sumerian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Neo-Sumerian in the dictionary

  1. neo-soul
  2. neo-Sovietism
  3. neo-Stalinism
  4. neo-Stalinist
  5. neo-Stalinists
  6. Neo-Sumerian
  7. Neo-Sumerians
  8. neo-Sunni
  9. neo-swing
  10. neo-synaptogenesis
  11. Neo-Syriac

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