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Definition of -ian suffix from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

-ian

suffix

NAmE//iən//

(also -an)

1(in nouns and adjectives) from; typical of Bostonian Brazilian Shakespearian Libran

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2(in nouns) a specialist in mathematician

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