Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who is born under the sign of Aquarius.
  • adjective Of or relating to Aquarius.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who keeps an aquarium.
  • Of or pertaining to an aquarium.
  • noun One who used water instead of wine in the eucharist: a term applied to certain Christians in Africa about the middle of the third century, who, while it was still customary to celebrate the Lord's supper twice a day, though employing wine at the evening eucharist, substituted water for it in the morning in order that the odor of wine might not betray them during the day.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

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  • adjective astrology Of or pertaining to the astrological sign of Aquarius.
  • noun astrology A person born under the astrological sign of Aquarius.

Etymologies

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Aquarius +‎ -an

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Examples

  • Despite Mr. Lindsey's protestations to the contrary, libertarianism has supported, always implicitly and often with an enthusiastic hurrah, the "Aquarian" excesses that he now decries.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • Despite Mr. Lindsey's protestations to the contrary, libertarianism has supported, always implicitly and often with an enthusiastic hurrah, the "Aquarian" excesses that he now decries.

    Lindsey is on to something in his talk of a "libertarian synthesis" combining self-expression and self-restraint Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • In spite of the often intensely magnetic, forthcoming and open personality of the more extrovert kind of Aquarian and of their desire to help humanity, neither type makes friends easily.

    Blog De Ganz | Archive | March 2005

  • On side two there are some promising long compositions 'Aquarian' and 'Octopus'.

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  • In spite of the often intensely magnetic, forthcoming and open personality of the more extrovert kind of Aquarian, and of their desire to help humanity, neither type makes friends easily.

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  • In spite of the often intensely magnetic, forthcoming and open personality of the more extrovert kind of Aquarian, and of their desire to help humanity, neither type makes friends easily.

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  • He was an Aquarian, like Abraham Lincoln and other leaders eager to live in a future that is at least fifty years away.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • He was an Aquarian, like Abraham Lincoln and other leaders eager to live in a future that is at least fifty years away.

    A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • Meanwhile, at least seven of these 19 Iran-linked, Hong Kong-flagged, U.S.-blacklisted ships have visited Lazaro Cardenas in the past 15 months: the Agean, Agile, Apollo and Attribute; plus the Aquarian and Atrium this April, and the Atlantic in June.

    Tehran's Ghost Fleet Claudia Rosett 2011

  • Reminds me of the piece of crap “Aquarian Conspiracy” book, supposedly prefacing the 1980′s.

    The future is HERE « Awful Library Books 2010

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