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Definition of Cretan
1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Crete.
Definition of Cretan
1. a. Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
Definition of Cretan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants. ¹
2. Noun. An inhabitant or a resident of Crete. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cretan
Literary usage of Cretan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1896)
"deserts is Aphrodite herself or her cretan ... festival with which the names of
Theseus and Ariadne and the legend of his cretan journey became entangled, ..."
2. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"The institutions which we shall shortly have to cretan describe under that head
are so similar to those of Crete, that it will be sufficient here to give a ..."
3. Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors; an Account of the Different Styles of by Margaret Jourdain (1908)
"As a rule, the motives of cretan lace patterns are traceable to orderly arrangement
and balance of simple geometric and symmetrical details, ..."
4. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"1104. contended that the cretan institutions were derived from Sparta, built
their chief argument on the fact, that Lyctus was her colony, and therefore ..."
5. Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Crete and the Aegean Islands by British Museum Dept. of Coins and Medals, Warwick Wroth, Reginald Stuart Poole (1886)
"The strange and well-marked character of the art of cretan coins The Art of was
... Mr. R. Stuart Poole, cretan Coins. jn a Lecture delivered at the Royal ..."
6. Kos Between Hellenism and Rome: Studies on the Political, Institutional, and by Kostas Buraselis (2000)
"Consequently, the hostile relations were not only between cretans and Kos but
between the cretan League (for which this was the official and technical ..."
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