Jump To:

• Milesian
  Milesian

  noun

  any of the people from Spain who invaded Ireland and defeated the Tuatha Dé Danann, and who were the ancestors of the present Irish people.
• milesian
  milesian

  adjective

  of or relating to Miletus

Milesian

¹ American  

[mi-lee-zhuhn, -shuhn, mahy-] / mɪˈli ʒən, -ʃən, maɪ- /

noun

Irish Legend.

1. any of the people from Spain who invaded Ireland and defeated the Tuatha Dé Danann, and who were the ancestors of the present Irish people.

2. (sometimes lowercase) an Irishman.

---

adjective

1. (sometimes lowercase) Irish.

Milesian ² American  

[mi-lee-zhuhn, -shuhn, mahy-] / mɪˈli ʒən, -ʃən, maɪ- /

adjective

1. of or relating to Miletus.

2. Philosophy. noting or pertaining to a school of philosophers of the late 7th to early 5th centuries b.c., including Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, which was primarily concerned with the nature of matter and change.

---

noun

1. a native of Miletus.

milesian ¹ British  

/ maɪˈliːzɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Miletus

---

noun

1. an inhabitant of Miletus

Milesian ² British  

/ maɪˈliːzɪən /

adjective

1. Irish

---

noun

1. an Irishman

Etymology

Origin of Milesian¹

1765–75; Milēsi ( us ) (Latinization of Irish Miled, legendary Spanish king) + -an

Origin of Milesian²

1540–50; < Latin Milēsius inhabitant of Miletus ( def. ) + -an

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Milesian

Thales and two of his students, Anaximander and Anaximenes, made up the monist Milesian school.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

Mr. Glasper, who supervised the music in Don Cheadle’s brash, kinetic biopic, “Miles Ahead,” has studied Milesian music and attitude closely over the last several years.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2016

Finding our Milesian so communicative, we questioned him farther, and obtained much interesting information.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Joseph Holt Ingraham

And Aristophanes, in his Knights, speaks of the pike taken in the neighbourhood of Miletus as surpassingly good, when he speaks thus:— But you shall not disturb me thus Feasting on Milesian pike.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

The Huns subsequently completed what the Alans had begun, and left not a vestige to indicate the true position of the old Milesian colony.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell