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Ozymandian

Ozymandian adjective: suggesting or pertaining to Shelley's Ozymandias, a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity.

Adjective

Ozymandian (comparative more Ozymandian, superlative most Ozymandian)

  1. Suggesting or pertaining to Shelley's Ozymandias, a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity.
    • Travelers in the antique land of the genre fable will find themselves confronted not perhaps by a wreck of Ozymandian proportions, but still with a sizable selection of rubble.2002, Niklas Holzberg, The Ancient Fable: An Introduction, page 1
    • Delhi is littered with the Ozymandian debris of empires.2013, James Astill, The Great Tamasha

Forms of Ozymandian

comparativemore Ozymandian
superlativemost Ozymandian

Origin of Ozymandian

From Ozymandias + -ian.

Questions about Ozymandian

What does Ozymandian mean?
Ozymandian means suggesting or pertaining to Shelley's Ozymandias, a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity.
What part of speech is Ozymandian?
Ozymandian is an adjective.

Words near Ozymandian in the dictionary

  1. ozumo
  2. Ozun
  3. Ozuna
  4. Ozunas
  5. Ozurgeti
  6. Ozymandian
  7. Ozymandias
  8. Ozymandiases
  9. ozzie
  10. Ozzieland
  11. ozzies

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