Library / English Dictionary

MINOAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Minoan" is a kind of...):

Cretan (a native or inhabitant of Crete)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete

Example:

the Minoan palace at Knossos

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Minoan civilization (the bronze-age culture of Crete that flourished 3000-1100 BC)

Derivation:

Minos (son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld)

Credits