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Fabian - What does it mean?

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fabian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or reminiscent of Roman general (Fabius Maximus), whose tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War famously consisted of delaying or avoiding combat, focusing instead on weakening the enemy by cutting off supply lines.
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 745:
    • Hood complained behind his commander's back to Richmond of Johnston's Fabian strategy.
  • Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating reformist socialism.
  • (by extension) cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Fabian socialist, a gradualist socialist; a member of the Fabian Society.

    • Synonyms

    * (gradualist socialist) gradualist, reformist, social democrat

    Related terms

    * Fabianism * Fabian policy

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • borne by an early pope. Rare in English.

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.