Greek

Greek: (Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. Hellenic, Hellenistic, Helladic, Minoan, Dorian, Attic, Boeotian, Athenian, Spartan, Peloponnesian, Ionian, Corinthian, Thessalonian, ancient, classic, Homeric; see also classical 2 .
n.
1. [A citizen of Greece]

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

2. [The Greek language]

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

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Synonyms:

Of Greece, Grecian, Hellenic, Grecian, native of Greece, Hellene / Grecian, classic, classical, after the Greek, in the manner of Greece, Greek language

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