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Definition of Aeolian
1. Noun. A member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds; relating to or caused by the wind.
3. Noun. The ancient Greek inhabitants of Aeolia.
4. Adjective. Of or relating to Aeolis or its ancient Greek people.
Definition of Aeolian
1. Adjective. Relating to Aeolus, the Greek god of wind. ¹
2. Adjective. of, or relating to the wind. ¹
3. Adjective. (geology) carried, deposited or eroded by the wind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aeolian
1. eolian [adj] - See also: eolian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeolian
Literary usage of Aeolian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"The fragments of Sappho, and they alone, reveal the secret of Aeolian poetry at
its highest. ... Aeolian ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Aeolian and Percussion Bird Music.—The non-vocal forms of bird music, though not
so widely distributed as those produced in the throat, are sufficiently ..."
3. The BookmanPopular culture (1903)
"An Aeolian purchased for HIM NICHOLAS II. THE C.ZAR OF RUSSIA by the DOWAGER
EMPRESS The following letter has been received from our St. Petersburg ..."
4. Aristoxenou Harmonika stoicheia =: The harmonics of Aristoxenus by Aristoxenus, Macran, Henry Stewart, 1867- (1902)
"This Harmony I shall assume to have been called Aeolian ; it resulted in the ...
SCALES OF THE Aeolian HARMONY IN THE THREE GENERA INDEFINITELY EXTENDED. ..."
5. Research Methods in Ecology by Frederic Edward Clements (1905)
"Succession in aeolian soils. The only wind-borne soils of geological importance
at the ... Aeolian deposits consist largely of rounded sand particles, ..."