[ noun ] a native or inhabitant of Crete <noun.person>
Cretan \Cre"tan\ (kr[=e]"tan), a. Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.
Plevris expects to reinforce Cretan's technical and marketing arms with energetic managers keen to take early retirement from the public sector.
Its Cretan collection is the best outside Crete, and its library is envied across the world.
"People think the lyra is a peculiarly Cretan instrument but I've found it all over Asia Minor and it must have been around since Byzantine times.
And even if we start importing more African and Caribbean bananas because of the quotas on dollar bananas, the Cretan product can't really compete,' says Mr Myron Mavrikides of Chiquita Hellas, Greece's largest banana importer.
Writers such as Vincenzios Kornaros and Giorgos Hortatzis wrote Venetian-inspired epics that are sung to this day in the distinctive Cretan dialect in remote villages.
The Cretan tulip, saxatilis, however, she charges with "stinginess of behavior," this species having "never seen fit to give me a single flower.