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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats