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Definition: Cretan |
CretanNoun1. A native or inhabitant of Crete. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cretan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Crosswords: Cretan |
| English words defined with "Cretan": Cretian, Cretism ♦ Minoan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cretan": Britomartis ♦ Daedalos ♦ Man of Brass. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cretan" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (cretan, dolt). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cretan" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.77% of the time. "Cretan" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.77% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Cretan": cretan dittany ♦ Cretan rockrose. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Cretan": cretan-born. | |
Ending with "Cretan": half-cretan. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cretan | 15 |
cretan music | 9 |
cretan diet | 6 |
cretan labyrinth | 5 |
cretan diet mediterranean | 3 |
cretan hellenic pictographs praephoenician script,journal studies,xiv.pt.ii | 2 |
cretan history | 2 |
cretan paradox | 2 |
cretan pottery | 2 |
cretan village | 2 |
cretan recipe | 2 |
cretan dialect | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Cretan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i kretës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | критски, критянин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kretensisk sporhund (Cretan tracker dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Kretenzer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kretano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kreetalainen gravierajuusto (Cretan graviera cheese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chamois de Crête (Cretan wild goat), paradoxe d'Epiménide le Crétois (Cretan paradox), paradoxe crétois (Cretan paradox), origan de Crète (cretan origan), limier de Crète (Cretan tracker dog), graviera de Crète (Cretan graviera cheese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kretischer Spürhund (Cretan tracker dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρησ, κρητικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | krétai. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cretese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Kreetagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etancray cretão, de creta. (various references) cretin (cretin, idiot, imbecile, mooncalf, Patsi), cretan (dolt). (various references) критский, критянин. (various references) kritski, krićanin. (various references) cretense. (various references) giritli. (various references) критський, критянка, критянин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Canis. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Cretan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bretagna, Caetani, Carentan, Careta, Cartan, Cerdan, Cerdana, Certen, cetan, Chetan, Coetan, Credta, Cregar, Crehan, Crerar, creta, Cretae, cretean, creten, Creti, creton, Cretton, cretun, Crittal, Kregan, kretan, Mcgrattan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Cretan" (pronounced 'Cre"tan'): Augustan, Avestan, harmattan, kaftan, Mercaptan, Moutan, Nehushtan, Orvietan, partan, Quintan, Rambutan, SATAN, Spartan, sultan, titan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: canter, carnet, centra, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antre, caner, caret, carte, cater, crane, crate, enact, nacre, rance, react, recta, trace. | |
-2 letters: acne, acre, ante, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, earn, etna, narc, near, neat, race, rant, rate, rent, tace, tare, tarn, tear, tern. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, ane, ant, arc, are, art, ate, can, car, cat, ear, eat, era. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: canters, carnets, cateran, centare, centaur, central, ceratin, certain, chanter, creatin, crenate, enactor, nectars, nectary, recants, reenact, scanter, tacrine, tanrecs, tranced, trances, tranche, uncrate. | |
+2 letters: accentor, acentric, ancestor, ancestry, anchoret, anoretic, anuretic, argentic, bacterin, cabernet, canister, cantered, carcanet, carinate, carotene, cartoned, catenary, caterans, catering, catnaper, centares, centaurs, centaury, centiare, centrals, ceratins, chanters, chaunter, cisterna, clarinet, coparent, coronate, courante, craniate, crankest, creatine, creating, creatins, creation, crenated, decanter, dicentra, enactors, enactory, entrance, ethnarch, increate, interact, iterance, merchant, navicert, outrance, pentarch, portance, preenact, reaccent, reactant, reacting, reaction, reascent, recanted, recanter, recreant, recusant, reenacts, sarcenet, scantier, snatcher, stancher, tacrines, trackmen, tranches, transect, truncate, uncrated, uncrates, uncreate, underact, untraced. | |
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