Cretan

Examples

• All

• When they reached the front door, Mrs. Zinn said, "Lilly, you've become a real Cretan!"

  Fiction book (1994)

• He was a Cretan, a man called Stratos.

  The Moon-Spinners (1964)

• Lily made up her mind to do it anyway, so she had to learn Cretan.

  Fiction book (1994)

• She felt sad about not looking like a Cretan anymore.

  Fiction book (1994)

• She was happy she'd picked up enough Cretan to answer.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Would they discover she wasn't a Cretan and punish her for intruding on their ceremony?

  Fiction book (1994)

• What credence are we to give to his statement that all the inhabitants of Crete are liars if the person who makes the statement is himself a Cretan?

  Academic text (1995)

• His book, therefore, reminds me of nothing so much as the ancient Greek riddle: "What is an Athenian to believe when a Cretan tells him all Cretans are liars?"

  Academic text (1995)

• In his prologue to the Greek translation of this novel, Pantelis Prevelakis penetrates into his fellow Cretan's psyche:

  Academic text (1991)

• He was proud to be a Cretan and celebrated his heritage at the festival.

Synonyms

G

Greek

vsCretan

148 1.0

A person from Greece

denotes someone from a specific island rather than the whole country

Compounds

C

Cretan dittany

• Specialized

9.9

A small shrub from Crete with a strong smell used in medicine and cooking

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology