MINYAN


Meaning of MINYAN in English

/min"yeuhn/ , Class. Myth.

adj.

1. descended from Minyas.

2. being or pertaining to a gray, wheel-thrown pottery produced in ancient Greece during the early part of the Helladic period, c2000 B.C.

n.

3. Minyans . Also, Minyae /min"yee/ . the descendants of Minyas who inhabited Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolcus in Thessaly.

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