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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ionian is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks". It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or pertaining to the ancient Ionians who lived in Attica and related territories, to their Ionic dialect of Greek, or to their culture
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 ionian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.