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Phocæan

Phocæan is the obsolete form of Phocaean.

Meaning of Phocaean

Noun

Phocaean (plural Phocaeans)

  1. (Ancient Greece) An inhabitant of Phocaea.
    • The discipline of the navy was not equal to the valour of the enterprise; Dionysius, commander of the Phocæans, attempted, perhaps too rigorously, to enforce it;—jealousy and disgust broke out among the troops[…].1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 451

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Forms of Phocæan

Noun
pluralPhocæans
Adjective
comparativemore Phocæan
superlativemost Phocæan

Questions about Phocæan

What is Phocæan the obsolete form of?
Phocæan is the obsolete form of Phocaean.

Words near Phocæan in the dictionary

  1. phocomelias
  2. phocomelic
  3. phocomelous
  4. phocomelus
  5. Phocæa
  6. Phocæan
  7. Phocæans
  8. phoebe
  9. Phoebean
  10. phoebes
  11. phoebodont

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Phocæan (page history and authors); Phocaean (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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