Hellenism Definition

hĕlə-nĭzəm
noun
A Greek phrase, idiom, or custom.
Webster's New World
The character, thought, culture, or ethical system of ancient Greece.
Webster's New World
Adoption of the Greek language, customs, etc.
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Other Word Forms of Hellenism

Noun

Singular:
Hellenism
Plural:
hellenisms

Origin of Hellenism

  • Either via French Hellenisme or Latin or directly from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνισμός (Ἑllinismós, “imitation of the Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Έλλην (Hellen, “a Greek”)

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Hellenism Sentence Examples

  • Greek culture had been the product of the city-state, and Hellenism could not be dissevered from the city.

  • Soter tried to introduce Hellenism into Persis.

  • In the country-side of Judaea, Judaism - and no longer Hellenism - was propagated by force.

  • But that ability was largely due to his whole-hearted Hellenism, which was shown by the Greek cities which he founded in Palestine and the buildings he erected in Jerusalem.

  • It was not till the great colonizing epoch of the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., when the name " Hellene " came into use as the antithesis of " barbarian," that the Greek race came to be conscious of itself as a peculiar people; it was yet some three centuries more before Hellenism stood fully declared in art and literature, in politics and in thought.

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Words Starting With

HHEHEL

Words Ending With

MSMISM

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Hellenism

Words Starting With H and Ending With M

Starts With H & Ends With MStarts With HE & Ends With MStarts With H & Ends With SM

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With H9 Letter Words Ending With M