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1. (adj.) Ionic
of or designating one of the five classical orders of architecture, characterized by a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of two pairs of connected volutes..
2. Ionic
noting or employing a metrical foot consisting either of two long followed by two short syllables or of two short followed by two long syllables.
3. (n.) Ionic
an Ionic foot, verse, or meter.
4. Ionic
the dialect of ancient Greek, akin to Attic, spoken in Euboea, the Cyclades, and Ionia.
Etymology: (1555–65)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) Attic, Ionic, Ionic dialect, Classical Greek
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
2. (adj) ionic
containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions
"ionic charge"; "ionic crystals"; "ionic hydrogen"
3. (adj) Ionic
of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture
4. (adj) Ionic
of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Ionic
of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians
2. (adj) Ionic
pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital
3. (adj) Ionic
of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions
4. (noun) Ionic
a foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic
5. (noun) Ionic
a verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet
6. (noun) Ionic
the Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic
7. (noun) Ionic
ionic type
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