phrygian

1. 1.

   a native or inhabitant of Phrygia

   Broaderinhabitant

   NarrowerColossian
2. 2.

   a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions

   BroaderThraco-Phrygian

Other forms of phrygian

plural

phrygians·

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 phrygian

What does phrygian mean?

phrygian means "a native or inhabitant of Phrygia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in phrygian?

phrygian has 3 syllables: phryg-i-an. The stress falls on "phryg". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɪdʒiən/.

Is phrygian a common word?

phrygian 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.