Word Meanings - ATHENIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece. -- n. A native or citizen of Athens.

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• CITIZENSHIP
  The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NATIVELY
  By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
• CITIZEN
  1. Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery. 2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem
• NATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being native.
• CITIZENESS
  A female citizen.
• GREECE
  See STEP
• METROPOLIS
  The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak. (more info) 1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
• CONGLUTINATIVE
  Conglutinant.
• URINATIVE
  Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. Bacon.
• EMANATIVELY
  By an emanation.
• ALTERNATIVENESS
  The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• GERMINATIVE
  Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.
• FINATIVE
  Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final. Greene .
• ORDINATIVE
  Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. Gauden.