CRETAN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Crete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Cretan" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cretan"):

Minoan (a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC)

Holonyms ("Cretan" is a member of...):

Crete; Kriti (the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC)