Boeotian
of or relating to Boeotia or its inhabitants.
dull; obtuse; without cultural refinement.
a native or inhabitant of Boeotia.
a dull, obtuse person; Philistine.
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How to use Boeotian in a sentence
The Boeotian potter may have appropriated the scene from an Athenian source.
Problems in Periclean Buildings | G. W. ElderkinThe immediate effect was to make the Boeotian portion of the army more numerous and closer packed than before.
Hellenica | XenophonThis city had long been hated by Thebes as a deserter from her own league; it alone of Boeotian towns had not joined the Persians.
Authors of Greece | T. W. LumbThe “Boeotian” population seems to have entered the land from the north at a date probably anterior to the Dorian invasion.
The Thebans, again, were afraid of being compelled to let the Boeotian states go free.
Hellenica | Xenophon
British Dictionary definitions for Boeotian
/ (bɪˈəʊʃɪən) /
a native or inhabitant of Boeotia, a region of ancient Greece
of or relating to Boeotia or its inhabitants
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