aegean Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    Aegean Sea.
  2. adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization
  3. adjective of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea
    • Aegean islands

WordNet

Æ*ge"an adjective (Also<
  • AEgean
  • Ægean
  • Egean
)
Etymology
L. Aegeus; Gr. .
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Webster 1913