Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A country of southeast Europe on the southern Balkan Peninsula and including numerous islands in the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Ionian seas. Settled by Achaeans, Aeolians, Ionians, Minoans, and Dorians by 1000 B.C., the region grew as an amalgam of independent city-states, many of which established colonies throughout the Mediterranean by the eighth century B.C.. Classical Greek culture, centered around Athens, reached a high point in the fifth century B.C. before being conquered by Philip II of Macedon in 338 B.C.. The area was later controlled by the Roman and Byzantine empires before being absorbed into the Ottoman empire (1456). In 1829, Greece gained its independence and established a constitutional monarchy. The king was deposed following a military coup in 1967, and a democratic republic was established in 1975. Athens is the capital and the largest city. Population: 10,700,000.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. 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).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete See gree a step.
WordNet 3.0
- n. ancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE
- n. a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
Etymologies
- 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. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters GREECE BURNS: A helicopter flew over a forest fire in the village of Domvrena, Greece, Monday.”
“REPRESSION IN GREECE CONTINUES: MILITANTS ARRESTED ATHENS, Greece -- On Wednesday, Dec 2, Jiorgos Balafas, Wasiliki Michu and Andreas Kiriakopulos were arrested in Athens and charged with crimes, including founding a terrorist organization, assassinations and bombings.”
“ATHENS, GREECE: Debt-plagued Greece faces a new wave of labor discontent against painful spending cuts, with a nationwide strike on Thursday closing hospitals and schools while stopping all flights and most public transport.”
“ATHENS, GREECE - Hobbled by exorbitant borrowing costs, Greece triggered an emergency aid plan Friday to draw cash from the International Monetary Fund and countries that use the euro - the first test of whether the EU is prepared to bail out one of its members.”
“GREECE CONCERNS: Greece deciding to trigger a bailout package to help manage its debt offered investors some relief.”
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“GREECE: Hobbled by exorbitant borrowing costs, Greece triggered an emergency aid plan Friday to draw cash from the International Monetary”
“GREECE - Hobbled by exorbitant borrowing costs, Greece triggered an emergency aid plan Friday to draw cash from the International Monetary”
“GREECE: Debt-plagued Greece faces a new wave of labor discontent against painful spending cuts, with a nationwide strike on Thursday closing hospitals and schools while Athens on Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010.”
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Interesting words
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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we don't call ourselves that
exonyms are names for a place or a people which are not used by the people themselves (or the residents of that place).
Those listed here are non-cognate with the corresponding endonym...Mesopotamia, Navajo, Anasazi, Gypsy, Yanks, Frisco, Germany, Greece, Japan, Chechen, barbarian, Berber and 7 more...
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Neoclassicism
Words to describe Neoclassicism
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Greece
Live the Myth!
sea, water, yachting, myth, Greece, Tzatziki, Souvlaki, Zeus, Orthodox church
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Monovocalic Proper
Capitalized words with only one of the vowels, with that vowel used at least three times. See also Monovocalics.
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