Definitions for Ionian

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Ionian I·o·ni·an

Spelling: [ahy-oh-nee-uh n]

IPA: /aɪˈoʊ ni ən/

Ionian is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in Ionian (aiinno).

Definitions for Ionian

noun

1. a member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks who invaded the Greek mainland and, after the Dorian invasions, emigrated to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor. Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian2 (def 2), Dorian1 (def 2).
2. an Ionian Greek.

adjective

1. of or relating to Ionia.
2. of or relating to the branch of the Greek people named from Ion, their legendary founder.

Origin of Ionian

First recorded in 1555-65; Ioni(a) + -an

Examples for Ionian

The earliest was the Ionian; the latter was the Italian school.

Lucius could not leave Ephesus without the poorest Ionian youth knowing it.

Ionian art went with the gay and pleasure-loving ways of the Asiatic coast.

(comes forward and says) The Ionian slave says well: let her retire.

Perchance 'twas some Ionian beauty or Carian girl who had smitten him suddenly.

The waves of the pure Ionian air still rang for ever with the name of Delphinios.

And when it died away, did not he fade with it—fade until the Ionian waters took him?

She and her nurse had been stolen from the Ionian coast, by Greek pirates.

Then he felt the shock of an earthquake in the Ionian Islands, and went to Venice.

The Ionian, he replied, and the Lydian; they are termed 'relaxed.'