Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to ancient Iberia in Transcaucasia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
- adjective Relating to the Iberian Peninsula or its modern peoples, languages, or cultures.
- adjective Relating to the ancient peoples that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula or their languages or cultures.
- noun A native or inhabitant of ancient Iberia in Transcaucasia.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula.
- noun A member of one of the ancient peoples that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula.
- noun Any of the languages of these peoples.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of Iberia, a country of ancient Asia corresponding to what is now called Georgia.
- In anthropology, of or pertaining to the dolichocephalic dark type inhabiting the greater part of southern Europe and parts of northern Africa. Also called
Mediterranean . It comprises the Ibero-insular and Atlanto-Mediterranean type of Deniker. - noun In anthropology, a member of the Iberian race.
- Of or pertaining to ancient Iberia in Europe, which included Spain and Portugal and part of southern France: as, the Iberian peninsula.
- Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Iberia; specifically, in art, noting the productions of the earlier races of the Spanish peninsula, which show no trace of Roman influence.
- noun One of the primitive inhabitants of Spain. The Basques are supposed to be descendants of the ancient Spanish Iberians.
- noun The language of the ancient Iberians, of which modern Basque is supposed to be the representative.
- Of or pertaining to ancient Iberia in Asia, nearly corresponding to Georgia in Russian Transcaucasia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Iberia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Native toIberia . - adjective Of or pertaining to
Iberia . - noun countable A
native ofIberia . - noun uncountable An extinct
language isolate that was spoken in theIberian peninsula .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially in ancient times)
- adjective of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula or its inhabitants
- noun a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus
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Examples
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Finally, and to be as curt as the question deservesthe Celtic Briton in the island was not exterminated and never came near to being exterminated: but on the contrary, remains equipollent with the Saxon in our blood, and perhaps equipollent with that mysterious race we call Iberian, which came before either and endures in this island to-day, as anyone travelling it with eyes in his head can see.
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Of this early European people, by some called the Iberian race, who were ultimately overwhelmed by the Aryan emigrants from central Asia, the
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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The Spanish Peninsula has also been called the Iberian, from its original inhabitants, and (by synecdoche) the Pyrenean, from the mountains which bound it on the north.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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This is regarded as one of the earliest works of sculpture in Spain, and certainly it has some very primitive, one may even say Iberian, traits, for the large _toro_-like animals recall Iberian sculpture.
Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899
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At the farthest point in the past to which human knowledge extends a race called Iberian inhabited the entire peninsula of Spain, from the
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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Because they are similar in build and performance, and because they share the same part of the world -- the Iberian Peninsula -- as well as a common gene pool, they are both often referred to as Iberian horses.
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Nearby, the celebrated "Self-Portrait with a Palette," made in Paris that fall, introduces the intense 25-year-old artist; he glances slightly away, his heavy-lidded dark eyes briskly outlined in an "Iberian" mask.
The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010
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Nearby, the celebrated "Self-Portrait with a Palette," made in Paris that fall, introduces the intense 25-year-old artist; he glances slightly away, his heavy-lidded dark eyes briskly outlined in an "Iberian" mask.
The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010
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Nearby, the celebrated "Self-Portrait with a Palette," made in Paris that fall, introduces the intense 25-year-old artist; he glances slightly away, his heavy-lidded dark eyes briskly outlined in an "Iberian" mask.
The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010
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Rock mullet with broad bean "Iberian" lasagna, peas and black pudding
Spain 2006
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