Wordnet 3.0
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