cyprian

1. 1.

   of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture

   “Cypriot expatriates”

   “Cypriote monasteries”

   SynonymsCyprioteCypriot
2. 2.

   resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus

   Similarunchaste

Other forms of cyprian

plural

cyprians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cyprian

What does cyprian mean?

cyprian means "a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cyprian?

cyprian has 3 syllables: cyp-ri-an. The stress falls on "cyp". In IPA it is /ˈsɪpɹiən/.

What is another word for cyprian?

Close synonyms include prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cyprian a common word?

cyprian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.