Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mandaean

2 senses of mandaean

Sense 1
Mandaean, Mandean -- (a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah)
       => religious person -- (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)

Sense 2
Mandaean, Mandean -- (the form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans)
       => Aramaic -- (a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia)

Similarity of adj mandaean

1 sense of mandaean

Sense 1
Mandaean, Mandean -- (of or relating to the Mandaean people or their language or culture)