Word.ws English Dictionary

Linear B

Linear B proper noun: a syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.

Proper noun

Linear B

  1. A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.

Origin of Linear B

Named by British archaeologist Arthur Evans, to distinguish it from the other linear script, Linear A.

Questions about Linear B

What does Linear B mean?
Linear B means a syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.
What part of speech is Linear B?
Linear B is a proper noun.

Words near Linear B in the dictionary

  1. linear algebraic
  2. linear algebraic group
  3. linear algebraic groups
  4. linear amplifier
  5. linear amplifiers
  6. Linear B
  7. linear channel
  8. linear channels
  9. linear combination
  10. linear combinations
  11. linear congruential generator

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Linear B (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Linear B.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/linear_b. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.