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pridian

pridian adjective: of or relating to the day before, or yesterday.

Adjective

pridian (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Of or relating to the day before, or yesterday.
    • sure sign of pridian intoxication1840, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A Shabby Genteel Story”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume IV, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC

Origin of pridian

From Latin pridianus.

Questions about pridian

What does pridian mean?
Pridian means of or relating to the day before, or yesterday.
What part of speech is pridian?
Pridian is an adjective.

Words near pridian in the dictionary

  1. Pridgens
  2. Pridgeon
  3. Pridgeons
  4. Pridgin
  5. Pridgins
  6. pridian
  7. priding
  8. pridingly
  9. pridinol
  10. Pridmore
  11. Pridmores

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