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Meaning of "pluvian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLUVIAN

ˈpluːvɪən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLUVIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pluvian is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLUVIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pluvian in the English dictionary

The definition of pluvian in the dictionary is a crocodile bird.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLUVIAN

alluvion · antediluvian · avian · Bolivian · diluvian · Jugoslavian · Latvian · Maldivian · Moldavian · Moravian · oblivion · Octavian · Peruvian · postdiluvian · Scandinavian · Servian · vesuvian · Vitruvian · Vivian · Yugoslavian

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLUVIAN

plutocratically · plutolatry · plutologist · plutology · pluton · Plutonian · plutonic · plutonism · plutonium · plutonomist · plutonomy · Plutus · pluvial · pluviometer · pluviometric · pluviometrical · pluviometrically · pluviometry · pluviose · pluvious

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLUVIAN

Asian · Asimovian · Australian · Batavian · Brian · Canadian · chavian · Chekhovian · Chekovian · Christian · Harrovian · Hungarian · Indian · Indonesian · Italian · Jovian · lesbian · Nabokovian · Shavian · subclavian

Synonyms and antonyms of pluvian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pluvian» into 25 languages

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The translations of pluvian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pluvian» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

pluvian
1,325 millions of speakers
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pluvian
570 millions of speakers
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pluvian
510 millions of speakers
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pluvian
380 millions of speakers
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pluvian
280 millions of speakers
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pluvian
278 millions of speakers
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pluvian
270 millions of speakers
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pluvian
260 millions of speakers
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Pluvian
220 millions of speakers
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Pluvian
190 millions of speakers
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pluvian
180 millions of speakers
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pluvian
130 millions of speakers
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pluvian
85 millions of speakers
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Pluvian
85 millions of speakers
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pluvian
80 millions of speakers
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pluvian
75 millions of speakers
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प्लुअनियन
75 millions of speakers
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pluvian
70 millions of speakers
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pluvian
65 millions of speakers
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pluvian
50 millions of speakers
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pluvian
40 millions of speakers
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pluvian
30 millions of speakers
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pluvian
15 millions of speakers
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pluvian
14 millions of speakers
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pluvian
10 millions of speakers
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pluvian
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLUVIAN»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLUVIAN»

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General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves.- v. 14, pt. 2. General index
BLACK-HEADED PLUVIAN. (Pluvianus melanoccphnlus.) PL. cezruleo-griseus, capite collo postico dorsoque nigris, superciliis collo antice pectorequepallide rzgjis. ' Blue-grey Pluvian; with the head, hind-part of the neck, and back, black; the ...
George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, 1819
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The poetical album; and register of modern fugitive poetry, ...
... dress rise stiffly up, As though to do it honour Trooping on, See where the crowds of worshippers (attired In white, and carrying flowers) pass on, to hail The Spirit supreme, by all his various names Of father, and king, and Pluvian Jupiter.
Alaric Alexander Watts, 1828
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The poetical album: and register of modern fugitive poetry
THE PLUVIAN JUPITER. FROM A PICTURE BY GANDY. BY BARRY CORNWALL, Look ! where, amongst the porphyry columns, sits Jove — the Olympian ! Look ! — His shadowy arms Crown the brave temple of his Deity, And round about his ...
Alaric Alexander Watts, 1828
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Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt
In reality, the bill, instead of being perfectly straight, and gibbous, like that of the plover, is stightly curved at the point of the upper mandible, and the gibbofity is less- distinct; differences which bring it nearer to the pluvian * of Buffon, and still ...
Charles Sigisbert Sonnini, 1799
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The Poetical Works of Milman, Bowles, Wilson and Barry ...
Never: in silence as in sound thou art A thing of grandeur ; and throughout the year Thy high protecting presence (let not this Be forgot ever) turns aside the winds Which else might kill the flowers of this sweet vale. THE PLUVIAN JUPITER.
Henry Hart Milman, William Lisle Bowles, John Wilson, 1829
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Reptiles and Birds / A Popular Account of Their Various ...
The Pluvian does the Crocodile the service of picking the latter's teeth. This assistance rendered by the little birdtothe terrible reptileoftheNile isreally rather touching, and has somewhat the appearance of having inspired La Fontaine with  ...
Louis Figuier, 2014
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Bellydance: A Guide to Middle Eastern Dance, Its Music, Its ...
In Cairo there is a saying: "Every girl is born a dancer." With this guide, all women can be divas of the dance.
Keti Sharif, 2005
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Word for Word
An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chew into masticate, rainy into pluvian?or antediluvian into plain old old. Attorney James Snyder didn?t set out to write a book about words. But one day he looked up the word animadversion.
James E. Snyder JD Jr., 2009
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1961: July-December
SEE Chirgwin, Brian H. PLUVIAN INSURANCE MANAGERS, INC. Minimum or maximum guarantee precipitation policy. © Pluvian Insurance Managers, Inc.; 5Jul6l; A518751. Weighted average minimum or maximum guarantee precipitation ...
Library of Congress. Copyright Office, 1962
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Altarpieces: Structures of Poetry and Spiritual Thinking
Levees burst! My pansies pelted. Cats and dogs and pitchforks in the sheets. Inundate! Precipitate! Percolate! Ah, the great absorb. Oh, the splash. The drizzle. The dripping icicle. The ooze. A trickle. A tear. A squish. I rain. I drip. I'm pluvian.
Michael D. O'Kelly, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLUVIAN»

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Thwarted love that ends badly, pluvian variations (tears, rain, ponds, oceans) - you've already seen it. One possible reason for once more ... «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Oct 14»
REFERENCE
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