Associations to the word «Crete»

Wiktionary

CRETE, proper noun. One of the 13 peripheries of Greece; an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
CRETE, noun. (archaic) A Cretan.

Dictionary definition

CRETE, noun. The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope