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Definition of Greek

1. Noun. The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language. "A Grecian robe"

3. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Greece.

Definition of Greek

1. a. Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.

2. n. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.

Definition of Greek

1. Noun. (countable) An inhabitant, resident, or a person of descent from Greece. ¹

2. Noun. (US countable) A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are commonly characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system) ¹

3. Noun. (uncountable) Unintelligible speech or text, such as foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the listener is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon; or statements that the listener does not understand or agree with. ¹

4. Proper noun. The language of the Greek people, spoken in Greece and in Greek communities. ¹

5. Proper noun. The writing system used in Greek language. ¹

6. Adjective. Of or relating to Greece, the Greek people, or the Greek language. ¹

7. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a fraternity or sorority. ¹

8. Adjective. unintelligible, especially regarding foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the speaker is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon. ¹

9. Adjective. (misspelling of Greek) ¹

10. Noun. Nonsense writing or talk; gibberish ¹

11. Noun. (slang) Anal sex. ¹

12. Verb. (computing) to display a placeholder instead of text, especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read ¹

13. Verb. (computing) to fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Greek

1. something unintelligible [n GREEK]

Medical Definition of Greek

1. Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See Calends. Greek Church, the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. Greek cross. Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. Greek rose, the flower campion. Origin: AS. Grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. Grec. Cf. Grecian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greek

greedily greediness greedinesses greedless greedmeister greedmeisters greedoid greedoids greeds greedsome

greedy greedyguts greegree greegrees greeing greek world greeked greekess greeking greekings

green green-backed firecrown green-bed green-blind green-blindness green-broom green-collar green-diesel green-eyed

Literary usage of Greek

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"Distinction between greek orthodoxy and greek nationality. ... The importance of the greek race to the progress of European civilization is not to be ..."

2. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giles Henry Lodge (1872)
"THE same remark is applicable to the study of greek art, as to that of greek ... But as the study of * greek literature is made more difficult than that of ..."

3. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology by Cornell University (1900)
"In this list of greek hymns the paean challenges our attention as the word which is both a general name for hymn, and a particular name for the hymn to ..."

4. Handbook of the Classical Collection by Gisela Marie Augusta Richter (1917)
"FIRST ROOM PREHISTORIC greek PERIOD1 ABOUT-IIOO BC 1 HE excavations of the ... Our knowledge of this earlier greek civilization we owe almost entirely to ..."

5. A History of Roman Classical Literature by Robert William Browne (1853)
"Latin, however, has not the plastic property which the greek possesses—the ... greek, like a; liquid or a soft substance, seems to crystallize as it were ..."

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