Achaean

American  

[uh-kee-uhn] / əˈki ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans.

2. (in theIliad ) Greek.

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noun

1. an inhabitant of Achaea.

2. a Greek, especially a member of the Achaean League.

3. a member of one of the four main divisions of prehistoric Greeks, believed to have occupied the Peloponnesus and to have produced the Mycenaean culture.

Achaean British  

/ əˈkaɪən, əˈkiːən /

noun

1. a member of a principal Greek tribe in the Mycenaean era

2. a native or inhabitant of the later Greek province of Achaea

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adjective

1. of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans

Etymology

Origin of Achaean

1560–70; < Latin Achae ( us ) (< Greek Achaiós, perhaps reflected in Hittite Ahhiyawa, a country alluded to in records of the late 2nd millennium b.c.) + -an

Example Sentences

When the Achaean League in the Peloponnese in Greece challenged Roman control of Greece and Macedon, Rome declared war and sacked Corinth, the League’s largest city, in 146 BCE.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The Achaean League was in the Peloponnese and the Aetolian League in central Greece.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The city-states of the Achaean and Aetolian Leagues in Greece were the exception, fiercely maintaining their independence against the Antigonid rulers of Macedon.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Although the prototype existed in such early alliances as the Greek Achaean League, up until the 19th Century international policing flourished chiefly in the realm of ideas.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may seem to imply that the civilization disclosed in the excavations at Mycenae is Achaean in character, and that it is to be connected with the Pelopid dynasty to which Agamemnon belonged.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various