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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

All this mass of Boeotian verse was composed for educational purposes, in an age when even preposterous information was better than no knowledge at all.

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

The Boeotian potter may have appropriated the scene from an Athenian source.

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

Boeotian is overlaid with a Doric element, it nevertheless agrees with Thessalian and Lesbian in some characteristics.

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

An almost identical story was current in the neighbourhood of Tilphossa, a Boeotian spring.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various