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Weberian

adjective

Weberian is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to Max Weber (1864–1920), influential German sociologist and political economist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-E-B-E-R-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Weberian mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to Max Weber (1864–1920), influential German sociologist and political economist.

  2. 2

    Of or relating to Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878), a German anatomist and biologist.

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

Forms of Weberian

  • more Weberian comparative
  • most Weberian superlative

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

How common is Weberian?

Weberian appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).

Weberian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense of or relating to German sociologist and political economist Max Weber:

LanguageWords
Frenchwébérien
Portugueseweberiano

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 Weberian come from?

From Weber + -ian.

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