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  1. asciannoun

    person or thing without a shadow

  2. asciannoun

    person or thing found close to the Equator

  3. Etymology: West aiskōnan, from ais-. Cognate with Old Frisian āskia, Old Saxon ēscon, Old High German eiscōn. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin aeruscare, Old Armenian այց, Slavic *jīskātī (Old Church Slavonic искати, Russian искать), Baltic *eiška- (Lithuanian ieškoti).

Wikipedia

  1. ascian

    The Ascian language is a fictional language invented by Gene Wolfe for his science fiction series The Book of the New Sun.The language is spoken by the inhabitants of the “northern continents” of the future earth, the Ascians, who are enslaved by their masters (the Group of Seventeen) in a way much like the people of Oceania in George Orwell's book 1984.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Asciannoun

    one of the Ascii

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ascian

    ash′yan, n. name given to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who are shadowless at certain seasons, from the sun being right over their heads. [Gr. askios, shadowless—a, neg., skia, a shadow.]

Anagrams for ascian »

  1. Scania

  2. sacian

  3. sicana

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ascian in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ascian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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