Definitions for Cretan

Cretan Cre·tan

Spelling: [kreet-n]
IPA: /ˈkrit n/

Cretan is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in Cretan (acenrt).

Definitions for Cretan

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Crete.

adjective

  1. of or relating to the island of Crete or its inhabitants.

Origin of Cretan

Latin Crētānus. See Crete, -an

Examples for Cretan

Some of them too are derived from Crete, and are appropriately transferred to a Cretan colony.

The Cretan archers gave him to me for good measure after the sale.

And our Cretan colony should, and probably will, have a character for virtue, such as few cities have.

A connexion with Athens is likewise intimated by the Cretan Cleinias.

For the object of laws, whether the Cretan or any other, is to make men happy.

Of the Cretan laws, I shall leave the defence to my Cnosian friend.

One is an Athenian, one a Cretan, the third a Lacedæmonian, and all are elderly.

The Cretans were servants of the common master; the Cretan bonds were endangered.

We were speaking of the syssitia, which will be a natural institution in a Cretan colony.

Fig. 70 is taken from a Cretan embroidery, in which this stitch is mainly used.

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