Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Greek.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ancient Greek; properly, a Greek of pure race: traditionally said to be so called from Hellen, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the legendary ancestor of the true Greeks, consisting of the Dorians, Æolians, Ionians, and Acheans.
- n. A subject of the modern kingdom of Greece, or Hellas.
Wiktionary
- n. a Greek, especially an ancient Greek
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a native or inhabitant of Greece
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Ἕλλην (Hellēn, "Greek"), most probably a derivation of Ἑλλοί or Σελλοί, the Greek inhabitants of the area around the sanctuary of Dodona (Δωδώνη), itself of pre-Greek origin.. In Greek mythology Ἕλλην (Hellēn), whom the Ἕλληνες (Hellēnes, "Greeks") were named after, was the son of Δευκαλίων (Deukaliōn) and Πύῤῥα (Purrha). (Wiktionary)
- Greek Hellēn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Young folk, who had been little children when she died, admired what they called his Hellene fairness.”
“There is no evidence for the word Hellene in Mycenaean times.”
“From there the name Hellene spread throughout Thessaly.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“This {arkinoia} of the Hellene is the necessary sharp shrewdness of a brain, which, however “affectively” developed, is at bottom highly organised intellectually.”
“One heard this "Hellene" everywhere, and often it had meaning.”
““Ha! It is a dream-spirit that speaks to me in Jeb’ez,” Radi Arumi said in pidgin Hellene.”
“Iannis explained, correspond to the '' Hellene '' and the '' Romoi ''. ”
“Several authors collapsed the distinction between Greeks and non-Greeks completely, using the term 'Hellene' to refer to anyone sharing similar cultural norms rather than to describe an ethnic group.”
“Phèdre, they called me, neither one knowing that it is a Hellene name, and cursed.”
“Too, a lot of poetry, including that of Nobel-prize winners, has been set to compulsively singable music by Hellene popular composers - and the songs are sung across Hellas independently of social stratum.”
The Huffington Post: Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of Art
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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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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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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