English

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Albus Dumbledore.

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Etymology

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From Dumbledore (itself from the noun dumbledore) +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Dumbledorian (comparative more Dumbledorian, superlative most Dumbledorian)

  1. Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series
    • 2010, Warwick Davis, Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis, John Wiley & Sons, published 2011, →ISBN, page 374:
      “Now I believe it’s someone’s birthday today,” Michael [Gambon] said in his finest Dumbledorian tones.
    • 2011, Astrid Ensslin, edited by Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling, and Ben Light, Gamers: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games, Routledge, →ISBN, Recallin’ Fagin: linguistic accents, intertextuality and othering in narrative offline and online video games, page 229:
      The all-important Guildmaster, a Dumbledorian, Gandalfian character of infinite wisdom, martial experience, untainted moral integrity and a white Western phenotype, speaks with a standard RP stage accent featuring the characteristic alveolar trill – or ‘rolled [r]’.
    • 2013, Eben Weiss, Bike Snob Abroad: Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets, and the Quest for Cycling Paradise, Chronicle Book, →ISBN, page 82:
      I found my way to it by following a gentleman with a Rip Van Winkle beard and a Pedersen bicycle, which is a bike of Swedish design that looks like the illegitimate offspring of a penny farthing and a hammock, and between his vaguely Dumbledorian appearance  [].

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