Meaning of Eleutherian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pertaining to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, especially to the original settlers of the island.
2. Pertaining to Eleutheria, the personification of freedom, or Zeus Eleutheria, the protector of freedom.

Examples

“Your Eleutherian son is very valuable to us & will daily become more so.”

“A naturalist would never weary in the Eleutherian scene.”

“Eleutherian settlers give Harvard ten tons of braziletto wood.”

“Spanish warships burned the original Eleutherian villages to the ground in 1684, but by that time scattered settlements had appeared all along Eleuthera's coastline and neighboring cays.”

“I've been familiar with the story of the Eleutherian Adventurers for several decades, since high school in Nassau, where our history teacher told us that we could be descended from these people— and some of us were.”

“He enters the ruins of a temple, sacred to Eleutherian Jove, where himself and his train are suddenly alarmed by the voice of one, who complains of the severe fate of Eretria.”

“Liberty, in these latter days, means something more than was celebrated in the Eleutherian festivals, or exemplified in the political institutions of the States of Greece, and the Commonwealth of Rome.”

“The Eleutherian festival was a long-established panhellenic festival, held every four years. It honoured Zeus Eleutherius, protector of the freedom (eleutheria) from barbarian dominion which the victory on this spot had secured for the Greeks of former times.”

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