Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus.

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

  • adjective (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus.

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  • noun science fiction An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.
  • noun A male homosexual.
  • adjective A 19th century term that referred to a person of a third sex.
  • adjective Of or relating to a group of German homosexual artists.
  • adjective rare homosexual
  • adjective astronomy Of or relating to the planet Uranus.

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Examples

  • Just as The Uranian is close to understanding what†™ s really happening, he†™ s faced with his greatest threat: himself!

    Marvel Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Before he became the dark figure the Agents of Atlas call The Uranian, Bob Grayson raced through the skies as Marvel Boy!

    Marvel Comics for January 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • The latest to announce its departure, an artists 'collective and burial society called the Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic

    NYT > N.Y. / Region 2010

  • The latest to announce its departure, an artists 'collective and burial society called the Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic

    NYT > N.Y. / Region 2010

  • The latest to announce its departure, an artists 'collective and burial society called the Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • The latest to announce its departure, an artists 'collective and burial society called the Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic

    NYT > N.Y. / Region 2010

  • The latest to announce its departure, an artists 'collective and burial society called the Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic

    NYT > N.Y. / Region 2010

  • The first in the field in modern times was Ulrichs who, as early as 1862, used the appellation "Uranian" (Uranier), based on the well-known myth in Plato's _Banquet_.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Add the writer's tendencies to sap the wonder out of characters and making them more mundane ie Marvel Boy now in gray and calling himself the Uranian and taking the other more superhero character 3-D Man out of the picture originally...

    Editorial Diatribe from the Catacombs: Atlas Shrugged! Chuck Wells 2010

  • Thus astrologers with a dominant Neptune or Uranus tend to attract Neptunian or Uranian subjects respectively.

    Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

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