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-ean

  1. an element used to form adjectives from nouns ending in -ea:

    crustacean.



-ean

suffix

  1. a variant of -an

    Caesarean

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of -ean1

< Latin ( us ) ( Greek -eios ), -ae ( us ) ( Greek -aios ), -e ( us ) + -an
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Example Sentences

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A council officer thought the reconstruction resembled Ean Coutts whose council home in Kinglassie, Fife, had been abandoned.

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Ean had last been seen on 2 September 2019.

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"Nobody had a bad word to say about Ean," Det Sgt Roxburgh said.

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David Barnes went on trial for Ean's murder.

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Kevin O'Donoghue told the High Court in Edinburgh that around the time his neighbour went missing, the workman told him Ean wasn't coming back as he had gone to live with his sister in England.

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