Greece Definition

grēs
pronoun

Country in southeastern Europe having borders with Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Member state of the European Union since 1981. Official name: Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία (Ellinikí Dimokratía)).

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(obsolete) Plural form of gree (a step)

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Origin of Greece

  • From Latin Graecia, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikos); a character in Greek mythology, the son of Thessalos, the king of Phthia, from whom Ἑλλάς (Hellas, “Greece”) and Ἕλληνες (Hellēnes, “the Greeks”) got their names.

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Greece Sentence Examples

  • The most famous adytum in Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi.

  • I read the histories of Greece, Rome and the United States.

  • In his foreign policy Pericles differs from those statesmen of previous generations who sought above all the welfare of Greece as a whole.

  • Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me.

  • It was the Iliad that made Greece my paradise.

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