Boeotian

American  

[bee-oh-shuhn] / biˈoʊ ʃən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Boeotia or its inhabitants.

2. dull; obtuse; without cultural refinement.

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Boeotia.

2. a dull, obtuse person; Philistine.

Boeotian British  

/ bɪˈəʊʃɪən /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Boeotia, a region of ancient Greece

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adjective

1. of or relating to Boeotia or its inhabitants

Etymology

Origin of Boeotian

First recorded in 1590–1600; Boeoti(a) + -an

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Example Sentences

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Boeotian

Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hesiod is supposed to have been a tiller of the ground in a Boeotian village, who determined to enrich his neighbours’ minds by putting his own ripe stores of useful information into sonorous metre.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

The style is that of the Ionian or Homeric epos; but there are also several traces of the Hesiodic or Boeotian school.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Hence he writes in a conventional Doric with Aeolic elements, which forms a strong contrast to that of Corinna, who kept more or less closely to the Boeotian dialect.

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

The amphora just referred to is a Boeotian fabric, but that fact does not nullify the importance of its bearing upon the problem in hand.

From Problems in Periclean Buildings by G. W. (George Wicker) Elderkin

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