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Cydonian

Cydonian

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A person from the ancient city on Crete or from the region on Mars
  • noun
  • /sɪˈdoʊniən/
: cydonio
  • No one like Cydonians.

Examples

  • Give up, Cydonian.

  • Posted by the Cydonian at 8:03 AM on August 12.

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  • Posted by the Cydonian at 9:09 PM on September 20, 2010.

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  • I'm actually surprised you Cydonians... have lasted as long as you have... seeing how incompetent you all are.

  • No more Cydonians.

  • No more Cydonians!

  • Cydonians?

  • You don't like Cydonians?

  • The Cydonian people believed in the legend of a lost city beneath the sands of Mars.

  • As a scientist studying Martian geography, she specialized in the Cydonian region's enigmatic formations.

Surface Forms

Cydonian singular
Cydonians plural

Morphology

Cydonian = Cydonia (transparent) = Cydonia + an

Regular demonym formation yielding a noun meaning 'a person from Cydonia' or an adjective meaning 'of Cydonia'; meaning is directly derived from the place name if known.

Etymology

A Cydonian is a person 'from Cydonia', originally someone from the ancient city on Crete, and in astronomy or fiction it can mean an imagined inhabitant of the Cydonia region on Mars.