AEGEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aegean mean? 

• AEGEAN (noun)
  The noun AEGEAN has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: AEGEAN used as a noun is very rare.

• AEGEAN (adjective)
  The adjective AEGEAN has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization

2. of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea

  Familiarity information: AEGEAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEGEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Aegean; Aegean Sea

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Meronyms (parts of "Aegean"):

Aegean island (an island in the Aegean Sea)

Lemnos; Limnos (a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties)

Holonyms ("Aegean" is a part of...):

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)

Derivation:

Aegean (of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea)

• AEGEAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Aegean civilization (the prehistoric civilization on the islands in the Aegean sea and the surrounding countries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Aegean islands

Pertainym:

Aegean (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)

Derivation:

Aegean (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)

 Context examples 

A country in southern Europe, bordering the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas, between Albania and Turkey.

(Greece, NCI Thesaurus)