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Cappadocian
/ ˌæəˈəʊɪə /
adjective
- of or relating to Cappadocia (an ancient region of E Asia Minor) or its inhabitants
noun
- a native or inhabitant of Cappadocia
Example Sentences
Only one Greek author, Herodotus, alludes to the pre-historic Cappadocian power and only at the latest moment of its long decline.
I have no plea to make for the Cappadocian; I can readily believe that his bacon was bad.
Then the Cappadocian comments on the strange nature of the prison, and is informed that Herodias' first husband, the brother of Herod, was imprisoned in it for twelve years, and was finally strangled.
The Cappadocian names for the months are those of the East Iranian calendar; and the Cappadocians cannot have obtained these till the calendar was current throughout the whole kingdom of the Achæmenids.
He set himself to Hellenize or Catholicize Armenian Christianity, and in furtherance of this aim set up a hierarchy officially dependent on the Cappadocian.
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