Achaean

Dictionary: A·chae·an (ə-kē'ən) pronunciation

also A·cha·ian (ə-kā'ən, -kī'-)
n.

A native or inhabitant of Achaea.
One of a Hellenic people believed to have inhabited the Peloponnesus and to have created the Mycenaean civilization.
A Greek, especially of the Mycenaean era.

Achaean A·chae'an adj.

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Achaean

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Any member of an ancient Greek people identified in Homer as those who, with the Danaoi and the Argeioi, attacked Troy. Some identify them with the Mycenaeans of the 14th – 13th century BC; others say that they arrived in the 12th-century Dorian invasions. They may have held power only a few generations before being replaced by the Dorians. Herodotus claims the later Achaeans of the northern Peloponnese (see Achaean League) were descended from these earlier Achaeans.

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WordNet: Achaean

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
Synonym: Achaian

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	Pátrai
	Achaea (region, ancient Greece)
	Philopoemen (Ancient Greek statesman & military leader)

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