Hellenic

[he'lenik;-'li:-]

解釋/意思:

(adj.) relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization .

編輯:思朋斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian.

(n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.

錄入:特丽萨

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Grecian.

吉尔达整理

解釋/意思:

adj. pertaining to the Hellenes or Greeks: Grecian in art esp. of the period from the primitive epoch to the Roman supremacy in Greece (beginning 146 B.C.) sometimes only from the time of Alexander the Great (c. 330 B.C.)—the term Hellenistic applying to later times.—n. Hell′ēne an ancient Greek: a subject of the modern kingdom of Greece or Hellas:—pl. Hellē′nes the name of the modern Greeks for themselves.—v.i. Hell′enise to conform or show a tendency to conform to Greek usages.—ns. Hell′enism a Greek idiom: the spirit of the Greek race; Hell′enist one skilled in the Greek language: a Jew who used the Greek language and adopted Greek usages in opposition to the Hebrews properly so called whether of Palestine or of the Dispersion and to the Hellenes or Greeks proper—they are called Grecians in the Authorised Grecian Jews in the Revised Version.—adjs. Hellenist′ic -al pertaining to the Hellenists: pertaining to Greek with foreign esp. Aramaic and Hebrew idioms—a popular dialect which grew up at Alexandria and perpetuated itself in the Septuagint and to a less marked degree in the New Testament.—adv. Hellenist′ically.

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