Hellene


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Hel·lene

(hĕl′ēn′) also Hel·le·ni·an (hĕ-lē′nē-ən)
n.
A Greek.
[Greek Hellēn.]
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Hellene

(ˈhɛliːn) or

Hellenian

n
(Peoples) another name for a Greek
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Greek

(grik)

adj.
1. of or pertaining to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
2. pertaining to the Greek Orthodox Church.
n.
3. a native or inhabitant of Greece.
4. the Indo-European language of the Greeks. Abbr.: Gk
5. Informal. anything unintelligible, as speech, writing, etc.: This contract is Greek to me.
6. a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
7. a person who belongs to a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority.
[before 900; Middle English; Old English Grēcas (pl.) < Latin Graecī the Greeks (nominative pl. of Graecus) < Greek Graikoí, pl. of Graikós Greek]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. Hellene - a native or inhabitant of Greece
Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
European - a native or inhabitant of Europe
Achaean, Achaian - a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
Aeolian, Eolian - a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
Dorian - a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
Ionian - a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
Athenian - a resident of Athens
Corinthian - a resident of Corinth
Laconian - a resident of Laconia
Spartan - a resident of Sparta
Arcadian - an inhabitant of Arcadia
Theban - a Greek inhabitant of ancient Thebes
Argive - a native or inhabitant of the city of Argos
Ephesian - a resident of the ancient Greek city of Ephesus
Mycenaen - a native or inhabitant of ancient Mycenae
Thessalian - a native or inhabitant of Thessaly
Thessalonian - a native or inhabitant of Thessalonica
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Translations

Hellene

[ˈheliːn] N → heleno/a m/f
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SOCRATES: O Meno, there was a time when the Thessalians were famous among the other Hellenes only for their riches and their riding; but now, if I am not mistaken, they are equally famous for their wisdom, especially at Larisa, which is the native city of your friend Aristippus.
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He was a little man, and his breastplate was made of linen, but in use of the spear he excelled all the Hellenes and the Achaeans.
Those again who held Pelasgic Argos, Alos, Alope, and Trachis; and those of Phthia and Hellas the land of fair women, who were called Myrmidons, Hellenes, and Achaeans; these had fifty ships, over which Achilles was in command.
A single State which is her equal you will hardly find, either among Hellenes or barbarians, though many that appear to be as great and many times greater.
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And it does not blow through the tender maiden who stays indoors with her dear mother, unlearned as yet in the works of golden Aphrodite, and who washes her soft body and anoints herself with oil and lies down in an inner room within the house, on a winter's day when the Boneless One (22) gnaws his foot in his fireless house and wretched home; for the sun shows him no pastures to make for, but goes to and fro over the land and city of dusky men (23), and shines more sluggishly upon the whole race of the Hellenes. Then the horned and unhorned denizens of the wood, with teeth chattering pitifully, flee through the copses and glades, and all, as they seek shelter, have this one care, to gain thick coverts or some hollow rock.
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Shiva soared to a 5-0 win over Hellene Damien of Mauritius.
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Workshop coordinator was SU's Lady Flor Partosa, while the secretariat was composed of J Marie Maxino, Hellene Grace Piaero, Kacyee Melon, Flordeliz Mate and John Edgar Rubio.
A week of a word feast in Dumaguete
They won by three points from the pair of Hellene Gatiramu and Korby Gatiramu who posted 37 points.
Windsor's Taimur Malik wins Royal Golfs' junior championship
Hellene Inc., the Sault-based solar panel manufacturing plant, has benefitted from a 199,000ドル interest-free, repayable loan from FedNor, the federal government's economic development engine for Northern Ontario.
Feds help out solar plant with interest-free loan
The key to the puzzle is the initial stipulation: 'suppose we use 'Hellene'...as a synonym for 'Greek' (Putnam 1954/1988, p.
Compositionality and believing that
This creates in Browning something of the binary between religion and the aesthetic that Arnold would later explore in Culture and Anarchy under the heads of "Hebrew" and "Hellene," or "Hebraism" and "Hellenism," the split (as he saw it) in nineteenth-century feeling between what we might now call a luminous monologic understanding of the Bible and the expanding world of criticism, culture, and the aesthetic.
Reading Browning intertextually: "A Toccata of Galuppi's" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

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