Usually means: Musical mode, major scale basis.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word ionian:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ionian: Merriam-Webster
  2. Ionian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Ionian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Ionian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ionian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ionian: Wordnik
  7. Ionian: Wiktionary
  8. Ionian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Ionian: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Ionian, ionian: Dictionary.com
  11. Ionian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Ionian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ionian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ionian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Ionian: Rhymezone
  16. Ionian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ionian: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ionian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Ionian: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Ionian: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ionian: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ionian: Medical dictionary

(Note: See ionians as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Ionian)

adjective:  Relating to the Hellenic people of that name.
adjective:  Synonym of Ionic.
adjective:  Pertaining to Ionia, the ancient (ca 1100 BC) region including western Asia Minor and the adjacent Aegean Islands occupied by the Ionian people.
adjective:  (astronomy, planetology) Relating to Io, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter.
adjective:  (astronomy) Relating to the asteroid (52) Io.
adjective:  (music) Designating the Ionian mode or scale; the name of the major key in modal theory.
noun:  A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.
noun:  (science fiction) An inhabitant of Io, a moon of Jupiter.
noun:  (geology, paleontology) A subdivision of the Pleistocene epoch.
adjective:  (architecture) Alternative form of Ionic. [Synonym of Ionian; of or relating to Ionia or the Ionians]
noun:  Ellipsis of Ionian Sea: A sea in the central and east central part of the Mediterranean. [A sea in the central and east central part of the Mediterranean.]

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