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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Advocating that socialism be reached through a series of gradual and moderate reforms; believing in the slogan, ''The movement is everything, the goal is nothing''; relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating reformist socialism.
  • Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, ''Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus''; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest. ''fabian policy'', a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

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Noun:

  • A fabian socialist, a gradualist socialist; a member of the Fabian Society.

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Proper noun:

  • male|from=Latin borne by an early pope. Rare in English.

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