of or relating to the Muses or artistic or poetic inspiration
2.
of or relating to Pieria
Pierian in American English
(paɪˈɪriən)
adjective
1.
of Pieria, where the Muses were anciently worshiped
2.
of the Muses or the arts
Pierian in American English
(paiˈɪəriən)
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to the Muses
2.
of or pertaining to poetry or poetic inspiration
3.
of or pertaining to Pieria
Word origin
[1585–95; ‹ L Pīeri(us) of Pieria + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1585–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aberration, competence, corridor, sine, switch-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian)