Definitions for Ionic

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Ionic i·on·ic

Spelling: [ahy-on-ik]

IPA: /aɪˈɒn ɪk/

Ionic is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Ionic (ciino).

Definitions for Ionic

noun

1. Prosody. an Ionic foot, verse, or meter.
2. the dialect of ancient Greek spoken in Euboea, the Cyclades, and on the mainland of Asia Minor at Miletus and elsewhere.
3. Trademark. a style of printing type.

adjective

1. of or relating to ions.
2. pertaining to or occurring in the form of ions.
3. Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
4. Prosody. noting or employing a foot consisting either of two long followed by two short syllables (greater Ionic) or of two short followed by two long syllables (lesser Ionic)
5. noting or pertaining to that variety of the eastern branch of the early Greek alphabet that was used for the writing of the Ionic dialect and that became the variety used for all dialects of Greek from the 4th century b.c. to the present.
6. of or relating to Ionia or the Ionians.

Origin of Ionic

First recorded in 1885-90; ion + -ic

Examples for Ionic

Susan had majored in ionic chemistry and had graduated with high honors.

Single ionic columns also stand at the outer angles of the aisles.

We spoke of Homer's similes as illustrative of the ionic feelings about war.

He is philologically interesting as still using the ionic dialect.

In the colonies in Asia Minor, the supremacy of the ionic order had long been recognized.

These capitals were very heavy, being 7½ ft. long and of the ionic design.

Six ionic columns supported the roof, and the single door was of bronze.

And they've got a stockpile of ionic bombs ready at all times in case we get out of hand.

And we were always taught that he wrote (or, rather, sang) in the ionic.

In this book I have written as clearly as I could on the arrangements of ionic temples.