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ionian

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ionian.

Editorial note

There are undrilled shale basins across western Europe, and the Black Sea and Ionian Sea have barely been tapped.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ionian gathered in one view.

noun

A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.

adjective

Relating to the Hellenic people of that name.

adjective

Synonym of Ionic.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ionian.

noun

A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.

adjective

Relating to the Hellenic people of that name.

adjective

Synonym of Ionic.

adjective

Only used in Ionian Islands.

Example sentences

1

There are undrilled shale basins across western Europe, and the Black Sea and Ionian Sea have barely been tapped.

2

Yeah, column-oriented works best for musical performance because it makes it easy to switch from Ionian to Dorian mode.

3

For instance, the Ionian mode is equivalent to Śankarābharaṇaṃ in Carnatic music, or Bilāval in Hindustani music.

4

And weren't there Ionian cities where Dorians were not allowed to set foot?

5

For example C major to D major is a modulation, but C Ionian (major) to D Dorian is usually called a modal interchange.

6

I asked ChatGPT to write out a G major Ionian scale with three notes per string in guitar tablature notation last night.

7

Didn't Ionian and Dorian Greeks speak two different languages?

8

> This pattern can be shifted up and down the neck to play the G major Ionian scale in different octaves.

9

Thucydides said that the Olympics used to be actually clothed (like sometime before 450 BC I mean), and that the Ionian style was more luxurious, with a gold thread that was fashionable to tie men’s hair.

10

Greece has been a protectorate and semi-colony (with some parts, like the Dodecanese, Ionian Islands and Cyprus being actual colonies to Italians, British, etc) ever since the country was established.

11

Turkey, btw, which has occupied the ancestral lands of the Kurdish people, alongside the ancestral lands of the Ionian and Pontiac Greeks, Assyrian and Cappadokian Christians and Armenians, whom it has ethnically cleansed and genocided.

Quote examples

1

And you need to use a very modern definition of "white" to call Pythagoras that, since he was an Ionian Greek.

2

If you are playing in D Dorian, it "feels" different than C Ionian or G Mixolydian, even those these all involve the same primary notes.

3

I hope "all scales" didn't include modes other than Ionian and Aeolian.

4

Should be easy to establish from court documents), and dude claimed to have paid back $10m to 1000 people, after which “when the cold wallet was empty, he threw it into the Ionian Sea” (wat?).

Proper noun examples

1

The major interval is what you'd get if you're measuring the intervals on a major (Ionian) scale; minor is -1 half step, dimished -2, augmented +1.

2

After the switch it was easy to see that major scale and all it's modes(Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian...) and all the keys where the same shape moving around.

3

Phrygian reflected around is root is Ionian.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ionian in a sentence?

There are undrilled shale basins across western Europe, and the Black Sea and Ionian Sea have barely been tapped.

What does ionian mean?

A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.

What part of speech is ionian?

ionian is commonly used as noun, adjective.