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Bœotian

Bœotian is the obsolete spelling of Boeotian.

Meaning of Boeotian

Adjective

Boeotian (comparative more Boeotian, superlative most Boeotian)

  1. (historical) Pertaining to Boeotia.
    • The only Boeotian troops that did continue to fight — the light infantry attached to the victorious cavalry — worked their way over to the Athenians on the right, where most of them were killed. The collapse of Boeotian morale at the death of Epaminondas and the abrupt cessation of fighting remain...2002, Robert E. Gaebel, Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 140
  2. (broadly) Stupid, foolish, dull-witted.
    • we will leave to thy sagacity to apply all this to the Boeotian writers, and to those authors who are their opposites.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 418

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Forms of Bœotian

Adjective
comparativemore Bœotian
superlativemost Bœotian
Noun
pluralBœotians

Origin of Bœotian

From Bœotia + -n.

Questions about Bœotian

What is Bœotian the obsolete spelling of?
Bœotian is the obsolete spelling of Boeotian.

Words near Bœotian in the dictionary

  1. Błaszki
  2. bōsōzoku
  3. Bœotarch
  4. Bœotarchs
  5. Bœotia
  6. Bœotian
  7. Bœotians
  8. Bœotic
  9. bœuf bourguignon
  10. Břeclav
  11. bʼakʼtun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bœotian (page history and authors); Boeotian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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