Centaurian

See also: centaurian

English

Etymology

From Centaurus +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Centaurian (comparative more Centaurian, superlative most Centaurian)

1. (chiefly science fiction) Pertaining to the constellation Centaurus or its imagined inhabitants. [from 20th c.]

Noun

Centaurian (plural Centaurians)

1. (science fiction) An inhabitant of the constellation Centaurus. [from 20th c.]

   Hyponyms: Alpha Centaurian, Proxima Centaurian

   • 1911, [L. D.] Biagi, The Centaurians: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Publishing Co., […]:

     The Centaurians are remarkable people, but move slowly.

   • 1935 March, Murray Leinster, “Proxima Centauri”, in Astounding Stories, volume XV, number 1, Street & Smith, page 25:

     Jack proposed to record a Centaurian’s vocabulary with English equivalents, and the dictawriter, hearing the queer hoots the strange creature uttered, would pick out a card which would then cause a speaker to enunciate its English synonym.

   • 2010, Adam D. Moore, Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations, The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 38:

     Suppose that in a few years we are visited by a race of benevolent and rational beings from Alpha Centauri that have free will and an advanced culture. […] Suppose further that after they figure out our languages we realize the Centaurians are moral beings who act on reflectively endorsed and rationally appraised principle. We can now ask, “What is of moral value for the Centaurians?”