Meaning of Adrian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name from Latin or Etruscan.
   countable, uncountable
2. A female given name from Latin (compare Adriana, Adrianna, Adrienne).
   countable, rare, uncountable
3. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
4. A village in Livada, Satu Mare County, Romania.
   countable, uncountable
5. A village in Gurghiu, Mureș County, Romania.
   countable, uncountable
6. A number of places in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
7. A city in Emanuel County and Johnson County, Georgia.
   countable, uncountable
8. An unincorporated community in Rock Creek Township, Hancock County, Illinois.
   countable, uncountable
9. A township in Jackson County, Kansas.
   countable, uncountable
10. A city, the county seat of Lenawee County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
11. A charter township in Lenawee County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
12. A city in Nobles County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
13. A township in Watonwan County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
14. A city in Bates County, Missouri.
    countable, uncountable
15. A hamlet in Steuben County, New York.
    countable, uncountable
16. A township in LaMoure County, North Dakota.
    countable, uncountable
17. An unincorporated community in Big Spring Township, Seneca County, Ohio.
    countable, uncountable
18. A city in Malheur County, Oregon.
    countable, uncountable
19. An unincorporated community in East Franklin Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
    countable, uncountable
20. A township in Edmunds County, South Dakota.
    countable, uncountable
21. A city in Oldham County, Texas.
    countable, uncountable
22. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington.
    countable, uncountable
23. An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
24. A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
25. A neighborhood of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Which, of he, or Adrian, for a good wager, / Firſt begins to crow ?”

“"My only worth will be in always remembering to do the thing that pleases you; and yet, although I don't really like Adie, it has a more home-like, more whisperable sound than Adrian. Adrian is a grand, heroic sort of a name, yet what a beautiful name it is.”

“His baptismal register spoke of him pessimistically as John Henry, but he had left that behind with the other maladies of infancy, and his friends knew him under the front-name of Adrian.”

“I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?”

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