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Greek (grēk)

noun

  1. a person born or living in ancient or modern Greece
  2. the language of the Greeks, constituting a separate branch of the Indo-European language family
  3. ancient Greek, esp. that of the classical period (c. 8th-4th cent. )
  4. ☆ Informal a member of a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority

Etymology: ME Greke < OE Grec < L Graecus < Gr Graikos, name orig. used by Illyrians for the Dorians in Epirus (< Grāi, Grāii < Grāes, native name of the people of Epirus); later applied by the people of Italy to all Hellenes

adjective

  1. of ancient or modern Greece or its people, language, or culture
  2. designating or of Greek Catholics or the Greek Orthodox Church

Etymology: ME Grec < the n. & < Fr grec < L Graecus

Greek Idioms

be Greek to someone

to be incomprehensible or unintelligible to someone

Greek Synonyms

Greek

modif.

Hellenic, Hellenistic, Helladic, Minoan, Dorian, Attic, Boeotian, Athenian, Spartan, Peloponnesian, Ionian, Corinthian, Thessalonian, ancient, classic, Homeric; see also classical 2.

Greek Synonyms

Greek

n.

  1. A citizen of Greece

    Hellene, Athenian, Spartan, Achaean, Dorian, Ionian, Corinthian, Thessalonian, Arcadian, Boeotian, Argolid, Laconian, Messenian, Attican, Peloponnesian.

  2. The Greek language

    Hellenic, Ionic, New Ionic, Attic, Æolic, Doric, Modern Greek, Romaic, Neo-Hellenic, language of Homer, koine, demotic Greek, hieratic Greek.

Greek Quotes

They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, Plain truth to speak; An'syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o'Greek!

—Burns, Robert

Rise not till noon, if life be but a dream, As Greek and Roman poets have exprest: Add good example to so grave a theme, For he who sleeps the longest lives the best.

—Prior, Matthew

Though I've never read a line of Homer I believe the Greekof today is essentially unchanged.If anything he is more Greek than he ever was.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

'Tis known he could speak Greek As naturallyas pigs squeak.

—Butler, Samuel

To create forms means: to live. Are not children more creative in drawing directly from the secret of their sensations than the imitator of Greek forms? Are not savages artists who have forms of their own powerful as the form of thunder?

—Macke, August

Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

—Bible (NewTestament)

There isneither Jew nor Greek, there isneither bond nor free, there isneither malenor female: for yeareall onein Christ Jesus. 122

—Bible (NewTestament)

Of such deep learning little had he need, Ne yet of Latin, ne of Greek that breed Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From when arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies.

—Spenser, Edmund

   Of her choice virtues only gods should speak, Or English poets who grew up on Greek (I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek).

—Rogers,Will

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek, He looked again and found it was The Middle of Next Week. 'The one thing I regret,' he said, 'Is that it cannot speak!'

—Dodgson

Nobodycansayaword against Greek: it stamps a manat once as an educated gentleman.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

—Jonson, Ben

It is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek.

—Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen

Graeca non leguntur. Things in Greek are not read.

—Anonymous

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