ionic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
    Attic; Ionic dialect; Classical Greek.
  2. adjective containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions
    • ionic charge
    • ionic crystals
    • ionic hydrogen
  3. adjective of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture
  4. adjective of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language

WordNet

I*on"ic adjective
Etymology
L. Ionicus, Gr. , fr. Ionia.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
  2. (Arch.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital. ✍This is Nonpareil Ionic.
Ionic adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
I*on"ic noun
Definitions
  1. (Pros.) (a) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic. (b) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
  2. The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
  3. (Print.) Ionic type.

Webster 1913