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paralian

paralian noun: someone who lives by the sea.

Noun

paralian (plural paralians)

  1. (rare) someone who lives by the sea
  2. a member of an ancient Greek people who lived by the Athenian coast in the 6th century B.C.E.

paralian meaning in Tamil

paralian in Tamil

கடற்வாசி

Forms of paralian

pluralparalians

Origin of paralian

Early 18th-century adoption into English as a common noun, with its earliest use credited to Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton. From Ancient Greek Παράλιος (Parálios, “Paralian”), from παράλιος (parálios, “coastal, maritime”), from παρα- (para-, “beside, next to”) + ἅλς (háls, “salt, seawater”) + -ιος (-ios, adjectival suffix).

Questions about paralian

What does paralian mean?
Paralian means someone who lives by the sea.
What is paralian in Tamil?
Paralian in Tamil is கடற்வாசி. See Paralian meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is paralian?
Paralian is a noun.
What is the plural of paralian?
The plural of paralian is paralians.

Words near paralian in the dictionary

  1. paralexic
  2. paralexical
  3. paralexicon
  4. paralgesia
  5. paralgesic
  6. paralian
  7. paralians
  8. paralic
  9. paralichthyid
  10. paralichthyids
  11. paralifting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paralian (page history and authors); paralian (Tamil 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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