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Antiochian

An·ti·o·chi·an/ˌæntiˈoʊkiən/adjective, noun

Antiochian is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to ancient Antioch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-O-C-H-I-A-N and has 5 syllables (An·ti·o·chi·an), and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Antiochian mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to ancient Antioch.

  2. 2

    Pertaining to Antiochus of Ascalon, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

noun

  1. 1

    A person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient Antioch.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Antiochian?

  • UK /ˌæntiˈɒkiən/
  • US /ˌæntiˈoʊkiən/
  • /ˌæntiˈɑkiən/

Antiochian has 5 syllables, split An·ti·o·chi·an in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Antiochian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Antiochian

  • more Antiochian comparative
  • most Antiochian superlative
  • Antiochan
  • Antiochians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Antiochian?

Antiochian appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Antiochian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchantiochien (of or pertaining to ancient Antioch), Antiochien, Antiochienne (a person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient…)
Germanantiochenisch (of or pertaining to ancient Antioch), Antiochener, Antiochenerin, Antiochier, Antiochierin (a person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient…)
Portugueseantioqueno (of or pertaining to ancient Antioch), antioquena (a person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient…)
Spanishantioqueno (of or pertaining to ancient Antioch), antioquena (a person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Antiochian come from?

From Antioch + -ian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).