(n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
(n.) The language of the original Aryans.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author of Mein Kampf, Gizewski said, never really tried to get his head around the history of the Jewish people or what Aryan really means.
(2) But Clark said the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is run autonomously and not linked to the wider group.
(3) Freud's profound interest in classical civilization was established in childhood; he was particularly concerned with the struggle between Aryan Rome and Semitic Carthage, a conflict in which he identified with both sides.
(4) His aim, the court heard, was “the creation of an international Aryan group who would establish white supremacy in white countries”.
(5) A society acquaintance gave them tickets for the first Nazi Nuremberg rally, but wouldn't introduce them to Hitler, for all their blonde Aryan looks, because they wore too much lipstick (their father complained about that, too).
(6) There are 2 major ethnic groups in Nepal, the Indo-Aryan and the Tibeto-Burmese.
(7) The mere fact that many of the standoff defendants entered into plea deals rather than go to trial suggests that they and their attorneys also felt the government had a very strong case.” There was similar incredulity at the not guilty verdicts in Fort Smith in 1988, as analysts pondered how the government could possibly lose a case against leaders and foot soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations, among other organizations, some of whom had previously been proven to have robbed banks and armored trucks, killed people, and openly called for the violent overthrow of the government.
(8) Their migration to Spokane in particular may just have been the inspiration for the establishment of the original headquarters of the Aryan Nations 37 miles [60km] away.
(9) Internal violence The Aryan Brotherhood is believed to have been formed in San Quentin state prison, California, in the 1960s.
(10) "So these groups, while they have all kinds of, quote-unquote, 'Aryan ideology' and so on, are very quick to make alliances with, say, the Mexican Mafia, the Black Guerrilla Family – in other words, non-white prison gangs – especially if it will help them in the running of methamphetamine and heroin and drugs like that," Potok said .
(11) Significant linkage disequilibrium, as it is found in Indians and Yakuts, etc., could have resulted from mixing of the Aryans with non-Indo-European tribes.
(12) Beam, who was a member of both the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations group, was not the first extremist to elaborate the strategy, but he is one of the best known.
(13) Diwali and Dussehra are both upper-caste holidays that celebrate the death of tribals and the ascent of Aryan culture over Dravidian culture,” said Soundararajan, a Dalit American artist and activist.
(14) The deaths have thrown a spotlight on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist group identified by one anti-racist organisation as the most violent extremist group in the US.
(15) But his scientists eventually "discovered" that Italians were, in fact, Aryans of part-Nordic descent which led in 1938 to racist policies officially being adopted .
(16) He got tattoos – Celtic and Nordic images, plus a few swastikas, and allegedly joined the Aryan Brotherhood.
(17) But while the Christians are still pestering God, the end-of-daysers awaiting Armageddon, and the Aryan brothers proving the least convincing imaginable argument for the superiority of their race, things have changed quite drastically in porn, which has been even more vulnerable than cinema, TV or music to the predations of the internet.
(18) In 1987 he repeatedly stabbed another inmate, an Aryan Brotherhood member.
(19) So the attributes that black women have so long been shamed for have finally been given the Anna Wintour seal of approval due to a new Aryan aesthetic?
(20) This is an anthropological study of the development of the mastoid process in the four ethnic groups of Pakistani races: Turko-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Scytho-Dravidian, and Aryo-Dravidian.
Caucasian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.
(n.) A member of any of the white races of mankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(2) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(3) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(4) Analysis of HLA DRB1 and DQB1 Bam HI RFLPs revealed four DRB1 (4.8, 5.2, 6.0 and 7.0 kb) fragments and a 3.2 kb DQB1 fragment to be significantly increased in Caucasians with seropositive RA compared to healthy individuals.
(5) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(6) We therefore developed a food frequency questionnaire and tested it against a 4-day weighed food record in 54 Caucasian women, between 29 and 72 years of age.
(7) The first individual is Oriental and carries Cw1 and Cw3 on the same haplotype, the other individuals are Caucasian and carry either Cw1, Cw3 or Cw1 and Cw3 on different haplotypes.
(8) Although complete data were not available, it appeared that the incidence of breast cancer is lower in this population of Hispanic women than in Caucasian women.
(9) It was also observed that the values obtained in the present study were lower than those for Caucasian children.
(10) An 8-year-old Caucasian male presented with two episodes of gross hematuria but was otherwise asymptomatic.
(11) Approximately 450 respondents over the age of 15 years were investigated in each of the following: a tribal Xhosa community in Transkei; a rural Tswana community in the northwestern Transvaal; an urban Negro population in Johannesburg; and a Caucasian community in the same city.
(12) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(13) Since immunological and hereditary factors may be important in chronic pancreatitis, histocompatibility antigens of classes I and II were studied in 50 British Caucasian patients, after exclusion of insulin-dependent diabetics for whom HLA associations are recognised.
(14) No study until now has examined the impact of the physical and psychological condition on voter turnout among elderly African Americans and Caucasians.
(15) The low values for triceps skinfold thickness are probably due to differences in the distribution of subcutaneous fat at different sites in the body as found between caucasian and non-caucasian population groups.
(16) Some of our results were different from the Caucasian both on the allele frequencies and the restriction fragment length.
(17) The variant promoter was not present in 35 Caucasian NIDDM patients or in 40 Pima Indians.
(18) alpha-Interferon has been shown to be the most promising antiviral agent in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Caucasian patients.
(19) The hypothesis that the index, body height2 divided by resistance (RI), can accurately predict fat-free body mass (FFB) and percent fat (%FAT) in children was tested on 94 caucasian children 10-14 yr old.
(20) Ours is the first population based study of its kind in Asian children, and challenges the view that there is a large difference in the prevalence of IDDM between Asians and White Caucasians.