Syrian

PluralSyrians

1. 1
   adjective

   Coming from or having to do with Syria, its people, or its language.

   The Syrian city of Aleppo is thousands of years old.

   We had dinner at a small Syrian restaurant downtown.

2. 2
   nouncountable

   Someone who comes from Syria or whose family is from there.

   My neighbor is a Syrian who moved here last year.

   The Syrian sitting next to me shared his lunch.

3. 3
   adjective

   Coming from or having to do with the Assyrian people or the Syriac language.

   "These are very old Syrian prayers," Grandpa said, opening his Syriac prayer book at the Assyrian church.

   He collected Syrian books written in the Syriac alphabet.

   SimilarSyriac, Assyrian

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   Someone whose family comes from the Assyrian people.

   Grandpa, an Assyrian from northern Iraq, still calls himself a Syrian.

   The Syrians in these villages of northern Iraq still pray in the old Assyrian language.

   SimilarAssyrian

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