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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) Aegean
of or pertaining to the Aegean Sea or Islands.

2. Aegean
of or pertaining to the prehistoric civilization of the regions of the Aegean Sea, as at Crete and Argolis.

Etymology: (< L Aegae(us) (< Gk Aigaîos) + -an¹)

Definition of 'aegean'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) Aegean, Aegean Sea
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

2. (adj) Aegean
of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization

3. (adj) Aegean
of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea
"Aegean islands"

Definition of 'aegean'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) aegean
of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago

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