Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bergerian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: berg-e-ri-an
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and Lutheran theologian.

adj

Of or relating to Thomas Louis Berger (1924–2014), American novelist.

adj

Of or relating to John Berger (1926–2017), English art critic and novelist.

Example Sentences

"In the Bergerian world, masks are often peeled away to reveal further masks, yet just as often what was mistaken for a mask turns out to be a face."
"This is what a Bergerian philosophy of life, art and politics equally constitutes: poetic as well as pragmatic, a Marxism somehow beyond time."

Etymology

From Berger + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Berger

Inflected Forms

more Bergerian (comparative) most Bergerian (superlative)

Questions

What does bergerian mean?: Of or relating to Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and Lutheran theologian.
Where does bergerian come from?: From Berger + -ian.

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