Definition of Achaian

1. Noun. A member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.

Exact synonyms: Achaean
Generic synonyms: Greek, Hellene

Definition of Achaian

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of Achaean) ¹

2. Noun. (alternative spelling of Achaean) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Achaian

Aces
Acetobacter
Achab
Achaea
Achaean
Achaeans
Achaemenes
Achaemenian
Achaemenians
Achaemenid
Achaemenid Empire
Achaemenidae
Achaemenides
Achaemenids
Achagua
Achaian (current term)
Achaians
Achaius
Achall
Achang
Achara
Achard syndrome
Achaz
Ache
Achean
Acheans
Achenbach syndrome
Acheron
Acheron Fossae

Literary usage of Achaian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"tjons of She first united herself to the Achaian body, and then—our first ... No greater gain ^tn^ne did the Achaian Union ever make than this which gave ..."

2. Homeric Synchronism: An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer by William Ewart Gladstone (1876)
"THE Achaian LINK. Early in the present century, Damm observed, in his ' Lexicon ... That the Achaian name was the proper national name, for that epoch, ..."

3. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1878)
"As in Athens— the highest type of pure democracy—the sovereign power was vested in the assembly, so in the Achaian League, the like power was exercised by ..."

4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1878)
"The poems which formed the basis of our great epics on Troy were, as Curtius argues, Achaian ballads ; but'they were put into', their present form, ..."

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