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aegean
/iˈd͡ʒi.ən/
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What does aegean mean?
adjective
- Of or relating to the Aegean Sea or the regions bordering it.
- Of or relating to the Bronze Age civilization in that region.
noun
- A shorthaired domestic cat originating from the Cyclades; an Aegean cat.
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proper noun
- A sea between Greece and Anatolia north of Crete; a lobe of the Mediterranean; in full, Aegean Sea.
- An age from 245 ± 1.5 to 244 million years ago, a subdivision of the Triassic.
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The spectators are told that this forms a word of two syllables, representing an island in the Aegean Sea.
Cimon, by these means, got the town, expelled the Dolopian pirates, and so opened the traffic of the Aegean sea.
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From the northern shores of the aegean came Lucippus, Democritus, and Aristotle.
It would considerably abridge the distance by water between Constantinople and the northern coast of the AEgean, and it would have the important advantage of obliging an enemy to maintain two blockading fleets instead of one.
How did it arise among the peoples of the AEgean Sea?