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Uranians

Uranians is the plural of Uranian.

Meaning of Uranian

Noun (1)

Uranian (plural Uranians)

  1. (archaic, literary) A male homosexual; also, a pederast; a man engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy.
    • Doubtless music is pre-eminently the Uranian’s art. His emotional nature goes out to it and in it, as in no other.[1908], Xavier Mayne [pseudonym; Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson], The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, [Rome?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 395
    Synonyms:
    uranist, urning

Noun (2)

Uranian (plural Uranians)

  1. An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.
    • [T]he fury of a fiery hot-brained Marsian, may kindle immediate and incessant wrangling and feuds; whilst a quiet placid Uranian, in his turn, may yet at times be excessively annoyed, ay, worried and tormented, by the tardiness, listlessness and inactivity of his dronish companion.1839, A Fantastical Excursion into the Planets, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 172

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Questions about Uranians

What is Uranians the plural of?
Uranians is the plural of Uranian.

Words near Uranians in the dictionary

  1. Urangas
  2. Urangeline
  3. Urangeline East
  4. urania
  5. uranian
  6. Uranians
  7. uranias
  8. uranic
  9. Uranicentric
  10. uranid
  11. uranide

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