Arthurian

American  

[ahr-thoor-ee-uhn] / ɑrˈθʊər i ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to King Arthur, who, with his knights, formed the subject of a large part of medieval romance.

   Arthurian legends.

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Arthurian British  

/ ɑːˈθjʊərɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

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Other Word Forms

• pre-Arthurian adjective

Etymology

Origin of Arthurian

First recorded in 1850–55; Arthur + -ian

Example Sentences

The species name combines a nod to Arthurian legend with a personal tribute.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

One musical compromised in the process is “Camelot,” a romantic retelling of Arthurian legend that opened on Broadway in 1960.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023

A bookseller named Chester recalls getting an early galley of Nicola Griffith’s feminist retelling of the Arthurian legend “Spear,” “and having to wait a year to start recommending it was agony.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023

In the first two, he transposed Arthurian legend on the landscape of Texas, basing the Guinevere character, he said, on his wife.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from Tennyson and people of that sort, would have been startled to see that the famous lovers were past their prime.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White