A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Adrian.
Used in a Sentence
hadrian
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hadrian.
Editorial note
If you get Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius all in the same century, you're lucky.
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Quick take
A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Adrian.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of hadrian gathered in one view.
(historical) The Roman emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for hadrian.
noun
A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Adrian.
noun
(historical) The Roman emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus.
Example sentences
If you get Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius all in the same century, you're lucky.
On the low end look at Apollo automation, the story of Grismo Knives, at the high end look a Hadrian Manufacturing.
Not even Roman Emperor Hadrian was able to marry his lover.
Palestina-Syria was a term coined for the region by Emperor Hadrian after the destruction of the Second Temple, so 40 years is nothing in the timeline of this whole conflict.
K, Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome and so many statues of Hadrian that you realize you can recognize him by sight, 2,000 years after his death, from across the room in Washington D.
Augustus - 75 Tiberius - 77 Vespasian - 69 Titus - 41 Nerva - 67 Trajan - 63 Hadrian - 62 Antoninus - 74 Marcus Aurelius - 58 I'll stop there - the next century is a drag.
Another interesting piece of automation: I tried to find a video of the robot in action, but a search for Hadrian bricklayer on youtube only found videos that played a text-to-speech summary of the article and a slideshow of pictures.
> > The Roman emperor Hadrian is rumored to have sent Bitrigus as far west as a boat could carry it to keep it from the then growing threat of religious fanaticism within the Roman Empire.
If anything, you've presented the truncated version: English/British interference in Ireland goes back more than 800 years, to the Anglo-Norman invasions of ~1170 and the award of the Lordship of Ireland to the King of England by Hadrian IV (the first, and so far the last, English pope).
Quote examples
For a French-leaning list I’m surprised not to see Memoirs of Hadrian, “often considered the best French novel of the 20th century”, per the recent LRB review.
Or just "The Hadrian's Firewall" ("Great Firewall" comes from "Great Wall").
Proper noun examples
Or seeing Hadrian's Arch in Athens, Hadrian's Wall in the U.
They fought with many different tribes north of Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall.
The government of the UK retreats above Hadrian's Wall after civil order in the country collapses in the wake of the zombie pandemic.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use hadrian in a sentence?
If you get Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius all in the same century, you're lucky.
What does hadrian mean?
A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Adrian.
What part of speech is hadrian?
hadrian is commonly used as noun.