Ionian noun & adjective. [ʌɪ'ǝʊnɪǝn] M16.
[from Latin Ionius from Greek Iōnios (from Iōnia Ionia) + -AN.]
A. noun. A member of the Hellenic people who occupied Attica and colonized western Asia Minor (part of which was named Ionia after them), the islands of the Aegean and those off the west coast of Greece, etc.; a native or inhabitant of Ionia. M16.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians; Ionic. M16.
Ionian mode Music (a) an ancient Greek mode, characterized as soft and light; (b) the last of the church modes (with C as final and G as dominant), corresponding to the modern major key of C.

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