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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley