Boeotian

[ bee-oh-shuhn ]

adjective
  1. of or relating to Boeotia or its inhabitants.

  2. dull; obtuse; without cultural refinement.

noun
  1. a native or inhabitant of Boeotia.

  2. a dull, obtuse person; Philistine.

Origin of Boeotian

1
First recorded in 1590–1600; Boeoti(a) + -an

Words Nearby Boeotian

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How to use Boeotian in a sentence

  • The Boeotian potter may have appropriated the scene from an Athenian source.

  • The immediate effect was to make the Boeotian portion of the army more numerous and closer packed than before.

    Hellenica | Xenophon
  • This city had long been hated by Thebes as a deserter from her own league; it alone of Boeotian towns had not joined the Persians.

    Authors of Greece | T. W. Lumb
  • The “Boeotian” population seems to have entered the land from the north at a date probably anterior to the Dorian invasion.

  • The Thebans, again, were afraid of being compelled to let the Boeotian states go free.

    Hellenica | Xenophon

British Dictionary definitions for Boeotian

Boeotian

/ (bɪˈəʊʃɪən) /


noun
  1. a native or inhabitant of Boeotia, a region of ancient Greece

adjective
  1. of or relating to Boeotia or its inhabitants

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