Eleutherian

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, especially to the original settlers of the island.
• Pertaining to Eleutheria, the personification of freedom, or Zeus Eleutheria, the protector of freedom.

Noun

• One of the original settlers of Eleuthera, who settled prior to the American Revolution.
• One of a people of Ancient Greece, originally associated with Thebes but later granted rights with Athens.
• A member of a splinter group of puritans led by Cotton Mather.

Proper Noun

• One of two temples on the southern slope below the Acropolis.

Origin

• Eleuthera + -ian
• From Ancient Greek Ἐλευθερία ("freedom")