Achaean

American  

[uh-kee-uhn] / əˈki ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans.

2. (in theIliad ) Greek.

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noun

1. an inhabitant of Achaea.

2. a Greek, especially a member of the Achaean League.

3. a member of one of the four main divisions of prehistoric Greeks, believed to have occupied the Peloponnesus and to have produced the Mycenaean culture.

Achaean British  

/ əˈkaɪən, əˈkiːən /

noun

1. a member of a principal Greek tribe in the Mycenaean era

2. a native or inhabitant of the later Greek province of Achaea

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adjective

1. of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans

Etymology

Origin of Achaean

1560–70; < Latin Achae ( us ) (< Greek Achaiós, perhaps reflected in Hittite Ahhiyawa, a country alluded to in records of the late 2nd millennium b.c.) + -an