Ionian

American  

[ahy-oh-nee-uhn] / aɪˈoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Ionia.

2. of or relating to the branch of the Greek people named from Ion, their legendary founder.

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noun

1. a member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks who invaded the Greek mainland and, after the Dorian invasions, emigrated to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor.

2. an Ionian Greek.

ionian British  

/ aɪˈəʊnɪən /

noun

1. a member of a Hellenic people who settled in Attica in about 1100 _bc and later colonized the islands and E coast of the Aegean Sea

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adjective

1. of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Ionic

2. of or relating to Ionia

3. music relating to or denoting an authentic mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from C to C and forming the basis of the modern major key See also Hypo-

Etymology

Origin of Ionian

First recorded in 1555–65; Ioni(a) + -an

Example Sentences

The storm began over the Ionian Sea and damaged a few other countries on its way to Libya, including Bulgaria and Turkey.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2023

A satellite image broadcast on state television showed that smoke from the Evros fires had drifted across the country to the Ionian islands in the northwest, not far from Italy.

From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2023

According to a European Commission report published this year, in a world that reached four degrees Celsius of warming, tourism would drop by nine percent in the Greek Ionian Islands.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

Corfu - sits in the Ionian sea off the northwest of Greece - is a destination popular with tourists, with hundreds of thousands Brits visiting every year.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2023

Anaxagoras was an Ionian experimentalist who flourished around 450 B.C. and lived in Athens.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan