Meaning

2 senses
  1. A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.

  2. An inhabitant of Io, a moon of Jupiter.

More definitions
  • the ancient Greek inhabitants of Attica and related regions in Ionia
  • a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks, spoken in the central west coast of Asia Minor, the islands of Chios and Samos, islands across the central Aegean, and on the large island of Euboea north of Athens

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Albania's Ionian coast is known for its beaches.

  2. Albania's western coastline along the Adriatic Sea and southern coastline along the Ionian Sea offer picturesque views and significant maritime resources.

  3. To the west, Albania has a coastline along the Adriatic Sea, and to the southwest, along the Ionian Sea.

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: Ionians
SingularIonian
PluralIonians

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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