Definition of: Iberian

(ī·bir′ē·ən) adjective
1. Of or pertaining to ancient Iberia in Asia, now Transcaucasian Georgia.
2. Of or pertaining to the Iberian Peninsula, including Spain and Portugal, or relating to the people of this region.
—noun
1. One of the inhabitants of ancient Iberia in Asia, conquered by the Arabs in the seventh century.
2. A member of the oldest ethnological group of Europe, which existed on the Iberian Peninsula as early as the Neolithic era.
3. The unclassified language of the ancient inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula, of which Basque may be a modern survivor: known only through some proper names and about 150 inscriptions. [<L Iberus <Gk. Iberes Spaniards]