Delian

[ dee-lee-uh n, deel-yuh n ]

/ ˈdi li ən, ˈdil yən /

adjective

pertaining to Delos.

noun

a native or inhabitant of Delos.

Origin of Delian

1615–25; < Latin Dēli(us) (< Greek Dḗlios) + -an

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Examples from the Web for delian

Athens had accomplished the work of the Delian League, and is not the labourer worthy of his hire?
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells
Thus, almost automatically, the Delian League converted itself into an Athenian empire.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI.|Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
The hymn to the Delian Apollo ends with an address of the poet to his audience.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6|Various
Change your settlement; it is not this coast that the Delian god moved you to accept—not in Crete that Apollo bade you sit down.
Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman|Frank Justus Miller

The Delian legend of the Hyperboreans may be thought to point in this direction.
The Legacy of Greece|Various

British Dictionary definitions for delian

Delian

/ (ˈdiːlɪən) /

noun

a native or inhabitant of Delos

adjective

of or relating to Delos

of or relating to Delius

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Word Origin and History for delian

Delian

adj.

1620s, "of Delos," tiny island in the Aegean, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Delian problem "find the length of the side of a cube having double the volume of a given cube," was set by the oracle at Delos when it answered (430 B.C.E.) that the plague in Athens would end when Apollo's (cube-shaped) altar was doubled. The Latin fem. form of the word became the proper name Delia.