Definitions for Mycenaean

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Mycenaean My·ce·nae·an

Spelling: [mahy-si-nee-uh n]

IPA: /ˌmaɪ sɪˈni ən/

Mycenaean is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in Mycenaean (aaceemnny).

Definitions for Mycenaean

noun

1. Also called Mycenaean Greek. the earliest recorded Greek dialect, written in the Linear B syllabary and dating from the 15th through the 13th centuries b.c.

adjective

1. of or relating to the ancient city of Mycenae.
2. denoting or pertaining to the ancient civilization at Mycenae, dating from c2000 to c1100 b.c.

Origin of Mycenaean

First recorded in 1590-1600; Mycenae + -an

Examples for Mycenaean

Their style takes on itself an almost bizarre freedom, which reminds us strongly of the similar characteristic in Mycenaean art.

Mycenaean tombs and other antiquities have been found (see Cyprus).

Lead, in fact, was perfectly familiar to the Mycenaean prime.

The gold breastplates of the Mycenaean graves pointed in this direction.

Its derivations from the Minoan and Mycenaean columns seems most improbable.

There is no evidence that the Mycenaean shield was plated with bronze.

Don dropped into an armchair and began to load his pipe from the Mycenaean vase.

Homer did not live in or describe the Mycenaean prime, with its stone arrow-tips.

Did a race so backward hit on an idea unknown to the Mycenaean Greeks?

Late rhapsodists would not delve in the archaeology of the Mycenaean prime.