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Andersonian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌæn.dəˈsəʊ.ni.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌæn.dɚˈsoʊ.ni.ən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Anderson + -ian.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to Ernest Masson Anderson (1877–1960), Scottish geologist, or his work on the dynamic analysis of faulting.
  2. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to Lindsay Anderson (1923–1994), British film and theatre director and film critic.
  3. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to Alan Ross Anderson (1925–1973), American logician, or his work in relevance logic and deontic logic.
  4. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian.
  5. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to Wes Anderson (born 1969), American film director, producer, and writer.
    • At other points, the film suggests the motive is financial, depicting the Kobayashi clan as staging an industrial coup of sorts, like a quirky Andersonian take on the zaibatsu (a term for the family-controlled business monopolies that dominated Japan until the end of World War II). 2018 March 31, Nina Li Coomes, “Unpacking the Fictional Japan of ‘Isle of Dogs’”, in The Atlantic: