NOUN (1)

1. a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete;
- Example: "the Minoan palace at Knossos"

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Minoan
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age
           culture of Crete; "the Minoan palace at Knossos"
    n 1: a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about
         3000-1100 BC