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Shavian

/ˈʃeɪ.vɪ.ən/

Shavian adjective: of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.

Adjective

Shavian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.
    • Possibly more than any other Shavian character, Undershaft engenders critical disagreement and discussion, even among the other characters in the play who call him “wicked” and “immoral” and refer to him in Devilish terms such as “Mephistoles” and “The Prince of Darkness”.1998, Christopher Innes, The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 156
    • Speaking as someone who supports the Shavian argument that monarchy is a bulwark against dictatorship, I found it a dignified occasion and a reminder that, as a nation, we seem to be infinitely better at staging public spectacles than at governing the country.2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. Of or relating to the Shavian alphabet.
    • As late as the 1960s, Shaw's own Androcles and the Lion was published in his revised alphabet—but the fact that few people have even heard of the Shavian spelling reform shows how futile the effort has been.2011, C.M. Millward, Mary Hayes, A Biography of the English Language, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 297

Noun

Shavian (plural Shavians)

  1. An admirer of Shaw, or an advocate of his ideas.

Shavian meaning in Malayalam

Shavian in Malayalam

ബർണാഡ്ഷാ ശൈലിയിലുള്ള

Forms of Shavian

pluralShavians

Origin of Shavian

From Latin Shavi(us) + -an (a Latinized form of Shaw), named after George Bernard Shaw.

Words formed from Shavian

Questions about Shavian

What does Shavian mean?
Shavian means of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.
What is Shavian in Malayalam?
Shavian in Malayalam is ബർണാഡ്ഷാ ശൈലിയിലുള്ള. See Shavian meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is Shavian?
Shavian can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Shavian?
Shavian is pronounced /ˈʃeɪ.vɪ.ən/.

Words near Shavian in the dictionary

  1. shaves up
  2. shavest
  3. shavetail
  4. shavetails
  5. shaveth
  6. Shavian
  7. Shavian alphabet
  8. Shaviana
  9. Shavianism
  10. Shavianismus
  11. Shavianity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Shavian (page history and authors); Shavian (Malayalam 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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