Definitions for Achaean

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Achaean A·chae·an

Spelling: [uh-kee-uh n]

IPA: /əˈki ən/

Achaean is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Achaean (aaacehn).

Definitions for Achaean

noun

1. an inhabitant of Achaea.
2. a Greek, especially a member of the Achaean League.
3. a member of one of the four main divisions of prehistoric Greeks, believed to have occupied the Peloponnesus and to have produced the Mycenaean culture. Compare Aeolian2 (def 2), Dorian1 (def 2), Ionian (def 3).

adjective

1. of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans.
2. (in the Iliad) Greek.

Origin of Achaean

1560-70; Latin Achae(us) (Greek Achaiós, perhaps reflected in Hittite Ahhiyawa, a country alluded to in records of the late 2nd millennium b.c.) + -an

Examples for Achaean

They remove to Achaia, and sue the Athenians under the Achaean convention.

This led to fresh quarrels and an appeal to the Achaean government.

But Achilles was an Achaean, and the same is true of most of the other chief heroes.

Then he sprang upon Aeneas's horses and drove them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks.

The effect of the message from the Romans in the Achaean league.

The resolutions passed by the Achaean federal assembly were these.

He was captured, when Achaean Strategus, by the Messenians and poisoned.

The Roman envoys come to Cleitor, where there is an Achaean assembly.

The Achaeans have a different and more interesting Achaean league.

The Romans referred the assessment of damages to an Achaean court at Sicyon.