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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to the Achæmenidæ, an ancient royal family of Persia, historically beginning with Cyrus, about 558
b. c. , and ending with the conquest of the Persian empire by Alexander the Great, 330b. c. - noun A Persian of the time of Achæmenes or the Achæmenidæ; also, the Persian language of that period (recorded in cuneiform inscriptions).
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