Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

turnerian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: turne-r-i-an
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to J. M. W. Turner (circa 1775 – 1851), British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker.

adj

Of or relating to Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), American historian, known primarily for his frontier thesis.

Example Sentences

"Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness."
"Turnerian echoes of resilient pioneers pressing into a wilderness and transforming hard-scrabble frontier into a bastion of liberty remain in contemporary scholarship even if those frontiersmen are viewed with a more critical eye for the violence they perpetrated."

Etymology

From Turner + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Turner

Inflected Forms

more Turnerian (comparative) most Turnerian (superlative)

Questions

What does turnerian mean?: Of or relating to J. M. W. Turner (circa 1775 – 1851), British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker.
Where does turnerian come from?: From Turner + -ian.

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