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say it: i-JEE-uhn
aegean is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization". It is pronounced /ɪˈdʒiən/ — i-JEE-uhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization
of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea
“Aegean islands”
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aegean come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.