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Mauryan

adjective, noun

Mauryan is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to the Maurya Empire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-U-R-Y-A-N, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Mauryan mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to the Maurya Empire.

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of the Maurya Empire.

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

Forms of Mauryan

  • more Mauryan comparative
  • most Mauryan superlative
  • Mauryans plural

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

How common is Mauryan?

Mauryan appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).

Where does Mauryan come from?

From Maurya + -an.

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