Dictionary Entry
ionic
ionic is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
- 2adjective
Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
- 3adjective
Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
- 4noun
A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
- 5noun
A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
- 6noun
The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
- 7noun
Ionic type.
- 8noun
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
Synonyms
- 9adjective
containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions
"ionic charge"
"ionic crystals"
- 10adjective
of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language
- 11adjective
of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture
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