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Achaean
[ uh-kee-uhn ]
adjective
- of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans.
- (in the Iliad ) Greek.
noun
- an inhabitant of Achaea.
- a Greek, especially a member of the Achaean League.
- a member of one of the four main divisions of prehistoric Greeks, believed to have occupied the Peloponnesus and to have produced the Mycenaean culture. Compare Aeolian 2( def ), Dorian 1( def 2 ), Ionian ( def 3 ).
Achaean
/ əˈkaɪən; əˈkiːən /
noun
- a member of a principal Greek tribe in the Mycenaean era
- a native or inhabitant of the later Greek province of Achaea
adjective
- of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans
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Example Sentences
We cannot tell how long previous to his own date the poet supposes the Achaean heroes to have existed.
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Sir John is not sure that Achaean spear-heads were not of copper, for they twice double up against a shield.
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In Achaean Pharae he found some thirty squared stones, named each after a god.
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But Achilles was an Achaean, and the same is true of most of the other chief heroes.
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Achilles is the only one of the chief Achaean leaders who can be referred to Thessaly.
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