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MINOAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Minoan" is a kind of...):
Cretan (a native or inhabitant of Crete)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete
Example:
the Minoan palace at Knossos
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Minoan civilization (the bronze-age culture of Crete that flourished 3000-1100 BC)
Derivation:
Minos (son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld)
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