NOUN (1)

1. a member of the Fabian Society in Britain;


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to Fabianism;
- Example: "the Fabian society"

2. using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation;
- Example: "a fabian policy"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. Designating, or pertaining to, a society of socialists,
      organized in England in 1884 to spread socialistic
      principles gradually without violent agitation.

            The Fabian Society proposes then to conquer by
            delay; to carry its programme, not by a hasty rush,
            but through the slower, but, as it thinks, surer
            methods of patient discussion, exposition, and
            political action.                     --William
                                                  Clarke.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, n.
   A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, a. [L. Fabianus, Fabius, belonging to
   Fabius.]
   Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general,
   Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory;
   avoiding a decisive contest.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Fabian
    adj 1: of or relating to Fabianism; "the Fabian society"
    2: using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition;
       avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy"
    n 1: a member of the Fabian Society in Britain

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "Fabian":
   Fabian socialist, Fourierist, Fourieristic, Marxist, Owenite,
   Saint-Simonian, collectivist, collectivistic, corrective,
   emendatory, extremist, gradualistic, meliorist, melioristic,
   phalansterian, progressionist, progressist, progressive,
   progressivist, radical, reformational, reformative, reformatory,
   reformer, reformist, reformistic, revisional, revisionist,
   revisory, revolutionary, socialist, socialistic, state socialist,
   utopian, utopian socialist, utopist