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CRETAN
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• CRETAN (noun)
The noun CRETAN has 1 sense:
1. a native or inhabitant of Crete
Familiarity information: CRETAN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Crete
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Cretan" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cretan"):
Minoan (a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC)
Holonyms ("Cretan" is a member of...):
Crete; Kriti (the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC)
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