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say it: muh-NOH-uhn
minoan is a noun and adjective meaning "a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC". It is pronounced /məˈnoʊən/ — muh-NOH-uhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC
of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete
“the Minoan palace at Knossos”
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 minoan 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.