Anatolian
adjective
of or relating to Anatolia, its inhabitants, or their language.
Anatolian
American
[an-uh-toh-lee-uhn]
/ ˌæn əˈtoʊ li ən /
adjective
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of or relating to Anatolia, its inhabitants, or their language.
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of, relating to, or belonging to the Anatolian group or family of languages.
anatolian
British
/ ˌænəˈtəʊlɪən /
adjective
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of or relating to Anatolia or its inhabitants
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denoting, belonging to, or relating to an ancient family of languages related to the Indo-European family and including Hittite
noun
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this family of languages, sometimes regarded as a branch of Indo-European
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a native or inhabitant of Anatolia
Etymology
Origin of Anatolian
First recorded in 1580–90; Anatoli(a) + -an
Example Sentences
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Once the capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Lydia, Sardis occupied a strategic location between the Mediterranean and the Anatolian plateau.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
Andrew Crowley, 46, of Longwell Green, Gloucestershire, asked the auction house to value three Cycladic figures and an Anatolian stargazer statuette he had inherited from his grandfather.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Athens emerged as the head of the Delian League, a confederacy of cities located along the Anatolian coast and on islands in the Aegean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
He lived on the Anatolian coast — now in Turkey but then a cradle of early Greek civilization — and was said to have acquired his unusual power by abandoning the gods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
I didn’t have the resources at fourteen, didn’t know enough, hadn’t been to the Anatolian mountain the Greeks call Olympus and the Turks Uludag, just like the soft drink.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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