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Phocean

Phocean is the alternative 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 Phocean

Noun
pluralPhoceans
Adjective
comparativemore Phocean
superlativemost Phocean

Questions about Phocean

What is Phocean the alternative form of?
Phocean is the alternative form of Phocaean.

Words near Phocean in the dictionary

  1. Phocaean
  2. Phocaeans
  3. phocal
  4. phocas
  5. Phocea
  6. Phocean
  7. Phoceans
  8. phocenate
  9. phocenates
  10. phocenic acid
  11. phocenin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Phocean (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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