Definitions for Aeolian

Aeolian Ae·o·li·an

Spelling: [ee-oh-lee-uh n]
IPA: /iˈoʊ li ən/

Aeolian is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in Aeolian (aaeilno).

Definitions for Aeolian

noun

  1. a member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks. Compare Achaean (def 5), Dorian1 (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
  2. Aeolic (def 1).

adjective

  1. pertaining to Aeolus, or to the winds in general.
  2. (usually lowercase) of or caused by the wind; wind-blown.
  3. Also, Aeolic. belonging to a nation of people in ancient Greece named after Aeolus, its legendary founder.

Origin of Aeolian

1595-1605; Aeoli(us) pertaining to Aeolus + -an -an

Examples for Aeolian

We have had a number of recitals in both Aeolian and Carnegie Halls, given by the artist students this season.

It was the most Aeolian thing ever caught from a night-breeze by the soul of a poet.

He added, presently, a great Aeolian Orchestrelle, with a variety of music for his different moods.

And now I am fit for rivalship with your clocks, papa having given me an Aeolian harp for the purpose.

He's just a sort of Aeolian harp that sings to the temper of the wind.

The threefold division into Dorian, Aeolian and Ionian must also be arbitrary.

It sounded as if the evening breeze were stirring Aeolian harps.

Do you know the music of an Aeolian harp, and that nothing below the spherical harmonies is so sweet and soft and mournfully wild?

We owe to him the earliest counting-machine, and it was he who perfected the Aeolian harp, the speaking tube, and the microscope.

Suddenly there arose on the air a sound of sweet, soft music, like the gentle breathings of an Aeolian harp.

Word Value for Aeolian
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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