lydian
/ˈlɪdiən/
adjective
- Relating to an ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) or its people, culture, or language.
- The Lydian kingdom was famous for its wealth and for inventing coinage.
- Lydian music used a scale that sounds different from modern major scales.
- She studied Lydian artifacts at the museum's ancient history exhibit.
noun
- A person from the ancient kingdom of Lydia.
- The Lydians were among the first people to use gold and silver coins.
- Herodotus wrote about the customs of the Lydians in his histories.
- A Lydian might have traded goods along the royal road to Persia.
- The extinct language of the ancient Lydian people.
- Only a few hundred words of Lydian have survived in ancient texts.
- Lydian was written in a script similar to the Greek alphabet.
- Linguists have deciphered most Lydian inscriptions found in Turkey.