Whovian

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fan of the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who.

   • But I am sorry; I'm a devout Whovian and I guess I got a little hot seeing the good Doctor ignored like that.
   • Typing birthday and Doctor Who into the search fireld turned up a fan-made video of a Dalek singing "Happy Birthday," which was perfect for my friend Steve, a fellow Whovian.
   • In his time, he's been a comic-book geek, a role-playing geek, a computer geek, and a sci- fi geek, though never a Trekkie, Trekker, or a Whovian, because he has his limits.
2. 2

   Of or pertaining to the fictional universe of Doctor Who.

   • The Ninth Doctor is haunted, thanks to a 'Time War' that has rendered his species, the Time Lords, extinct at the hands of the Whovian nemeses, the Daleks, who are now supposedly equally extinct.
   • ³³ In a historical irony, the Daleks have been taken as metaphors for the Nazis; the other main Whovian adversaries, the Cybermen, were likewise metaphors for Cold War Communists.

The neighborhood

• synonymDoctor Whovian