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huxleyan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hux-leyan
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer.

adj

Of or pertaining to Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), English anatomist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Etymology

From Huxley + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

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Synonyms

huxleian

Questions

What does huxleyan mean?
Of or pertaining to Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer.
Where does huxleyan come from?
From Huxley + -an.

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