Usually means: Native or resident of Crete.
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  1. Cretan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cretan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cretan: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Cretan: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cretan, cretan, cretan: Wordnik
  6. Cretan: Wiktionary
  7. Cretan: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Cretan, cretan: Dictionary.com
  9. Cretan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Cretan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. cretan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. Cretan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cretan: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cretan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Cretan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Cretan: Encyclopedia

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  1. cretan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cretan)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants.
▸ noun:  An inhabitant or a resident of Crete.
▸ noun:  The dialect of Greek spoken in Crete.

Similar:
Cypriot, Mycenaean, Minoan, crenarchaeal, Cycladic, Cyrenaic, cretinoid, Greek, Cerinthian, Cynthian, more...

Opposite:
non-Cretan, non-native, outsider, foreigner

Phrases:
cretan labyrinth, Cretan Bull, cretan civilization, cretan dittany, Cretan rockrose, more...

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Similar:
Cypriot, Mycenaean, Minoan, crenarchaeal, Cycladic, Cyrenaic, cretinoid, Greek, Cerinthian, Cynthian, more...

Opposite:
non-Cretan, non-native, outsider, foreigner

Phrases:
cretan labyrinth, Cretan Bull, cretan civilization, cretan dittany, Cretan rockrose, Cretan State, Cretan hieroglyphs, Cretan Turks, Cretan cuisine, Cretan resistance, Cretan lyra, Cretan Greek, Cretan School, more...

Adjectives:
old, young, great, certain, early, famous, eteo, ancient, non, learned, true

Colors:
    olive green,     burnt umber,     coral pink,     ochre,     azure, more...



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