Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Greek.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Greece.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek.
- n. A native of Greece; a Greek.
- n. In the New Testament, a Hellenizing Jew. [The word occurs in Acts vi. 1, ix. 29, and xi. 20, in the authorized version, translating
(ελληνιστής , a Hellenizer. In the revised version the word is rendered “Grecian Jews” in the first two places and “Greeks” in the last.] - n. One versed in or studying the Greek language.
- n. One of the senior boys of Christ's Hospital. E. D.-
- n. A gay, roystering fellow.
Wiktionary
- adj. Greek
- n. A native or inhabitant of Greece.
- n. A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School.
- n. A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
- n. One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek.
- n. A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
- n. A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
- n. One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language
- n. a native or resident of Greece
Etymologies
- From Latin Graecia, Greece, from Graecus, Greek; see Greek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Grecian Coffee-house, Devereux-court, Strand, (closed in 1843) was named from Constantine, of Threadneedle street, the _Grecian_ who kept it.”
“The term Grecian, or Hellenist, denotes a Jew by birth or religion who spoke Greek.”
“The murderous and mischievous pranks of Imbize, Ryhove, and such demagogues, at Ghent and elsewhere, with their wild theories of what they called Grecian, Roman, and Helvetian republicanism, had inflicted damage enough on the cause of freedom, and had paved the road for the return of royal despotism.”
“Imbize, Ryhove, and such demagogues, at Ghent and elsewhere, with their wild theories of what they called Grecian, Roman, and Helvetian republicanism, had inflicted damage enough on the cause of freedom, and had paved the road for the return of royal despotism.”
“But, curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.”
“Reviewing the life of Susan B. Anthony, I ever liken her to the Doric column in Grecian architecture, so simply, so grandly she stands, free from every extraneous ornament, supporting her one vast idea – the enfranchisement of woman.”
“A similar instance, in Grecian history, admonished the emperor of the honorable part prescribed for his imitation.”
“All over the glass beyond the emblem’s borders were hand-cut leaves, little women in Grecian dress walking up a mountain path leading to a tunnel formed by the leafy limbs of trees, and on the other side of the dome the etched water of a rock-studded stream ran before a long temple whose fluted pillars framed the figures of goddesses, their hands aloft to a sun crosshatched white.”
“As Canova himself recognized with such grace, the Elgin Marbles threw a shoe into the whole elaborate works; what Europeans had come to know as Grecian style was evidently something else altogether.”
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