Associations to the word «Parthian»

Wiktionary

PARTHIAN, adjective. Relating to Parthia or Parthians.
PARTHIAN, adjective. Delivered as if in retreat. (An allusion to the Parthian battle tactic of firing arrows backwards from horseback while apparently in retreat.)
PARTHIAN, noun. A native or inhabitant of Parthia.
PARTHIAN, noun. An extinct Western Iranian language that was spoken in Parthia.

Dictionary definition

PARTHIAN, noun. A native or inhabitant of Parthia.
PARTHIAN, noun. The Iranian language spoken in the Parthian kingdom (250 BC to AD 226).
PARTHIAN, adjective. Pertaining to Parthia or its people or language or culture; "Parthian archeology".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne