Definitions for Aegean

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Aegean Ae·ge·an

Spelling: [ih-jee-uh n]

IPA: /ɪˈdʒi ən/

Aegean is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in Aegean (aaeegn).

Definitions for Aegean

noun

1. the. Aegean Sea.
2. an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey.

adjective

1. pertaining to the Aegean Sea or Islands.
2. pertaining to or denoting the prehistoric civilization that preceded the historic Hellenic period and flourished on the various islands and nearby regions of the Aegean Sea, as at Crete and Argolis.

Origin of Aegean

Latin Aegae(us) (Greek Aigaîos) + -an

Examples for Aegean

These once bloomed in the island gardens of the blue Aegean.

Issa is said to have been settled by people from Lesbos, the Issa of the Aegean.

In a secret conclave he called for naval sorties that would set fire to the dockyards of other port cities around the Aegean.

They caught sight of many islands as they passed through the Aegean.

Islands in the Aegean sea, so called because they surrounded Delos in a circle.

Jan. 11—Troops sent to garrison the Italian islands in the Aegean.

The arrangement is comparable with Santorin in the Aegean Sea.

Most of them live in or around Istanbul or on the Aegean coast in the western part of the country.

In 410 B.C., some seven decades after their defeat at Salamis, the Persians jumped back into the “great game” of Aegean rivalry.

Presumably the island of Psyra in the Aegean, now called Psara.