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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to Scythia or its people, language, or culture.
  2. n. A member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia.
  3. n. The Iranian language of the Scythians.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to the Scythians, or to Seythia, an ancient region of indefinite extent north of the Black Sea, or in the northern and central parts of Asia.
  2. Pertaining to the family of languages sometimes called Ural-Altaic or Turanian.
  3. n. A member of an ancient nomadic race, found in the steppe regions from the Carpathian mountains eastward. The Scythians have been thought to be of Mongolian or more probably of Aryan descent.
  4. In geology, noting the lowest series of the Triassic system in the Mediterranean basin, comprising the Brahmanian and Jakutian stages.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An inhabitant of Scythia, an ill-defined region centered in southern Russia.
  2. adj. Relating to Scythia.
  3. adj. Relating to Scythians.
  4. n. An inhabitant of Scythia, an ill-defined region centered in southern Russia.
  5. adj. Relating to Scythia.
  6. adj. Relating to Scythians.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
  2. n. A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.
  3. n. The language of the Scythians.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language
  2. n. a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia
  3. n. the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians

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