Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of southeast Greece in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its Minoan civilization, centered at the city of Knossos on the northern coast, was one of the earliest in the world and reached the height of its wealth and power c. 1600 BC. Crete subsequently fell to the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Venetians, and Ottoman Turks. The islanders proclaimed their union with modern Greece in 1908.
- Sea of,A section of the southern Aegean Sea between Crete and the Cyclades Islands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification: The crest of the glacis or parapet of the covered way.
- noun The interior crest of a redoubt. See
parapet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Cretan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun One of the 13
peripheries ofGreece ; anisland in theMediterranean Sea . - noun archaic A
Cretan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
Etymologies
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Examples
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For the topography of Crete, Pashley's _Travels in Crete_ and Spratt's
The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898
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CRETE - Crete took advantage of early Lincoln Pius X errors Friday at Simon Field and rolled to a 31-14 win that clinched the District B-4 title and a 12th straight state playoff berth.
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The proposed Chinese container port in Crete, for instance, could create at least 800 jobs.
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The proposed Chinese container port in Crete, for instance, could create at least 800 jobs.
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The proposed Chinese container port in Crete, for instance, could create at least 800 jobs.
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The proposed Chinese container port in Crete, for instance, could create at least 800 jobs.
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So whilst it is, of course, terrible what happened to a British tourist in Crete, you do have to ask whether it will take THIS kind of treatment to get some British men to keep their shorts on and British women to keep their tops on in bars abroad.
Archive 2009-08-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The proposed Chinese container port in Crete, for instance, could create at least 800 jobs.
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So whilst it is, of course, terrible what happened to a British tourist in Crete, you do have to ask whether it will take THIS kind of treatment to get some British men to keep their shorts on and British women to keep their tops on in bars abroad.
Flaming Sambuca anyone ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The proposed Chinese container port in Crete, for instance, could create at least 800 jobs.
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