Aegean
pronunciation
How to pronounce Aegean in British English:
UK [i:'dʒi:ən]
How to pronounce Aegean in American English:
US [i'dʒiən]
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- Noun:
- an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization
- of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea
Word Origin
- Aegean
- sea between Greece and Asia Minor, 1570s, traditionally named for Aegeus, father of Theseus, who threw himself to his death in it when he thought his son had perished; but perhaps from Greek aiges "waves," a word of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. Not before fear had spread well beyond the aegean .
- 2. Iran might find an aegean island a handy way of foiling nato 's planned missile-defence shield .
- 3. Western diplomats talk of a marked escalation in dogfights between turkish and greek pilots over the aegean .
- 4. In fiercely democratic greece , the potential for wind farms certainly exists , as anyone who sails the aegean knows .
- 5. He had grown up in a village marked by a sign for the e6 hiking trail that runs from finland to the aegean .