a member of a Hellenic people who settled in Attica in about 1100 bc and later colonized the islands and E coast of the Aegean Sea
of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Ionic of or relating to Ionia
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I•o•ni•an
(ī ō′nē ən),USA pronunciation adj.
n.
- Language Varieties, Ancient History, Place Namesof or pertaining to Ionia.
- Language Varieties, Ancient Historyof or pertaining to the branch of the Greek people named from Ion, their legendary founder.
n.
- Ancient History, Language Varietiesa member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks who invaded the Greek mainland and, after the Dorian invasions, emigrated to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor. Cf. Achaean (def. 5), Aeolian (def. 2), Dorian (def. 2).
- Language Varietiesan Ionian Greek.
- Ioni(a) + -an 1555–65
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'Ionian' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Achaean
- Aeolian
- Balkan Peninsula
- Cephalonia
- Chios
- Corfu
- Corinth
- Dorian
- Epirus
- Eretria
- Greece
- Ionian Islands
- Ionian Sea
- Ionian mode
- Ithaca
- Lepanto
- Levkas
- Levkás
- Miletus
- Patras
- Paxos
- Phocaea
- Syracuse
- Taphiae
- Taranto
- Xuthus
- Zante
- colophon
- hypoionian mode
- paparazzo