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Assyrian   /əsˈɪriən/   Listen
Assyrian

noun
1.
An inhabitant of ancient Assyria.
2.
The language of modern Iraq.  Synonym: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.
3.
An extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia.  Synonym: Assyrian Akkadian.



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"Assyrian" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been publishing 'Margaret of Anjou' and an Assyrian tale, and refusing W.W.'s Waterloo, and the 'Hue and Cry.' I know not which most to admire, your rejections or acceptances. I believe that prose is, after all, the most reputable, for certes, if one could foresee—but I won't go ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... were smitten with a supernatural terror. He who overthrew the hosts of Pharaoh in the Red Sea, who put to flight the armies of Midian before Gideon and his three hundred, who in one night laid low the forces of the proud Assyrian, had again stretched out His hand to wither the power of the oppressor. "There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because ...
— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... the good of being angry with you? Is this the sort of thing you want for your half-crown?—Aphrodite, a later form of the Assyrian Astarte; the daughter, according to some theogonies, of Zeus and Dione; others have it that she was the offspring of the foam of the sea, which gathered round the fragments ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey

... through the ages; but in reality it is but one more link between us and the centuries past, the human touch that revivifies history, that unites humanity. People of the past wear a haze about them, are immovable and rigid as their pictured representations. The Assyrian is to us a huge man of impossible beard, the Egyptian is a lean angle fixed in posture, the Greek is eternally posed ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

... Assyrian mythologies we have the chief deities as Ishtar, Tammuz, Baal, and Astarte. In the Phrygian religion we have the Goddess Cybele and her husband Attis. Among the Greeks we have the Goddess Aphrodite and the God Adonis. ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks


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