Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Greek.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun A subject of the modern kingdom of Greece, or Hellas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
Greek , especially an ancient Greek
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Greece
Etymologies
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Examples
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Young folk, who had been little children when she died, admired what they called his Hellene fairness.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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There is no evidence for the word Hellene in Mycenaean times.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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From there the name Hellene spread throughout Thessaly.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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This {arkinoia} of the Hellene is the necessary sharp shrewdness of a brain, which, however “affectively” developed, is at bottom highly organised intellectually.
Cyropaedia 2007
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One heard this "Hellene" everywhere, and often it had meaning.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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“Ha! It is a dream-spirit that speaks to me in Jeb’ez,” Radi Arumi said in pidgin Hellene.
Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003
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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.
openDemocracy Naoise MacSweeney 2010
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Iannis explained, correspond to the '' Hellene '' and the '' Romoi ''. '
FXstreet.com Mizuho Corporate Bank 2010
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Phèdre, they called me, neither one knowing that it is a Hellene name, and cursed.
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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.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of Art 2010
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