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Phocaeans

Phocaeans is the plural 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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Questions about Phocaeans

What is Phocaeans the plural of?
Phocaeans is the plural of Phocaean.

Words near Phocaeans in the dictionary

  1. phocacean
  2. phocaceans
  3. phocae
  4. Phocaea
  5. Phocaean
  6. Phocaeans
  7. phocal
  8. phocas
  9. Phocea
  10. Phocean
  11. Phoceans

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