Definitions for Pompeian

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Pompeian Pom·pe·ian

Spelling: [pom-pey-uh n, -pee-]

IPA: /pɒmˈpeɪ ən, -ˈpi-/

Pompeian is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in Pompeian (aeimnopp).

Definitions for Pompeian

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Pompeii.

adjective

1. of or relating to Pompeii, or its culture.
2. pertaining to or designating a style of mural painting, examples of which have been found in or near Pompeii, Herculaneum, etc., dating from about the beginning of the 1st century b.c. to a.d. 79, characterized chiefly by the illusion of three-dimensional form organized in an architectonic structure.

Origin of Pompeian

From the Latin word Pompeiānus, dating back to 1825-35. See Pompeii, -an

Examples for Pompeian

A wealthy Pompeian sometimes had more than one of these chests.

In this period, we may truly say that Pompeian architecture was at its best.

Among them was Cicero, who often speaks of his Pompeian villa (Pompeianum).

She crossed the room and passed behind the bronze Pompeian Antinous.

I write this very early on the 27th, on my road to my Pompeian house.

Nigidius Maius appears to have been a rich Pompeian of the time of Claudius.

A thrifty Pompeian certainly did not lack opportunity to acquire wealth.

Can he be Pompeian, and despise wealth, even if blind to beauty?'

It looks more like the room of a Pompeian house than a Christian crypt.

Such is the inscription which a Pompeian placed in the mosaic floor of his house.