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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Achaea.
- noun One of a Hellenic people believed to have inhabited the Peloponnesus and to have created the Mycenaean civilization.
- noun A Greek, especially of the Mycenaean era.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Achean .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An inhabitant or a resident of
Achaea . - adjective Of or relating to
Achaea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
- noun the ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea
- adjective of or relating to Achaea or its ancient Greek people
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Examples
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It may be related to the word Achaean, meaning Greek.
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On the morrow call the Achaean lords to the assembly, and declare thy saying to all, and take the gods to witness.
Book I Homer 1909
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Take my advice, call the Achaean heroes in assembly to-morrow — lay your case before them, and call heaven to bear you witness.
The Odyssey 1900
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On the morrow call the Achaean lords to the assembly, and declare thy saying to all, and take the gods to witness.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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Take my advice, call the Achaean heroes in assembly to-morrow morning -- lay your case before them, and call heaven to bear you witness.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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Santa was quite kind to her this year, but it is obvious that he's pretty upset with the direction-challenged king of a small Achaean island because he's inflicted a devious kind of torture on me.
Archive 2009-12-01 Ulysses 2009
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So in conclusion: a prolonged primary battle helps the eventually winner, because they take up more airtime, so long as the eventual loser doesn't go and sulk in his/her tent like Achilles who lost to Agamemnon in the crucial Achaean caucus.
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Santa was quite kind to her this year, but it is obvious that he's pretty upset with the direction-challenged king of a small Achaean island because he's inflicted a devious kind of torture on me.
State of Play Ulysses 2009
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No precedent existed for such a government—not in contemporary Europe, where neither the Swiss, the Dutch, nor the Germans provided an appropriate model; nor in the Achaean and Lycian Leagues or the Amphictyonic Council of ancient times.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Hamilton went through those confederations one by one, sparing his audience a discussion of other examples although they would, he said, prove that the principle was destructive “even as far back as the Lycian and Achaean leagues.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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