ardian means A proposed but unadopted air-officer rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to air vice-marshal. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
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- A proposed but unadopted air-officer rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to air vice-marshal.“A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Ardian” comes from the Gaelic “Ard” meaning “chief”, and “Ian” or “Eun”, a “bird”.”