Phrygian Definition

frĭjē-ən
adjective
Of Phrygia or its people, language, or culture.
Webster's New World
noun
A person born or living in Phrygia.
Webster's New World
The extinct Indo-European language of the ancient Phrygians, preserved only in fragmentary inscriptions.
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Other Word Forms of Phrygian

Noun

Singular:
Phrygian
Plural:
phrygians

Phrygian Sentence Examples

  • The Phrygian mythology, so far as we know it, has a melancholy and mystic tone, and their religion partakes of the same character.

  • He was originally the god of the small river of the same name near Celaenae, an old Phrygian town.

  • The story of Alexander's cutting the fatal "Gordian knot" on the chariot of the ancient Phrygian king Gordius is connected with his stay in this place.

  • We know from many sources the prominence assigned to women prophets in the Phrygian church.

  • Also inscriptions in early Phrygian character and language, found in 1894.

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Words Starting With

PPHPHR

Words Ending With

NANIAN

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Words Starting With P and Ending With N

Starts With P & Ends With NStarts With PH & Ends With NStarts With P & Ends With AN

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With P8 Letter Words Ending With N