Aegean
/iːˈdʒiːən
/ /ɪˈdʒiːən/adjective
Relating to the region comprising the Aegean Sea and its coasts and islands.The Aegean region is packed with out-of-the-way places to bike, climb, raft, trek, windsurf, and sea kayak....
- In the Aegean region, especially, a revolution in tractor usage took place.
- Grieving their lost companions, Ulysses and his men at long last reached a peaceful Aegean island.
noun (the Aegean)
The Aegean Sea or its region.On September 23 1942 he took off from an airfield near Alexandria on a solo reconnaissance over the Aegean....
- With more the 300 days of sunshine Rhodes is the pearl of the Aegean.
- In 490 he sent a fleet across the Aegean to Marathon.
Origin
Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek Aigaios + -ean.
Rhymes
- corroboration
- corroborative
- corroborator
- corroboratory
- corroboree
- corrode
- corrodible
- corrody
- corrosion
- corrosive
- corrosively
- corrosiveness
- corrosive sublimate
- corrugate
- corrugated
- corrugated iron
- corrugated paper
- corrugation
- corrupt
- corrupter
- corruptibility
- corruptible
- corruption
- pre-punch
- prepunched