[syn: Greek, Grecian, Hellenic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Greek \Greek\, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf.
Grecian.]
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
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Greek calends. See under Greek calends in the vocabulary.
Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), 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. See Illust. (10) Of Cross.
Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire.
Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under
water, the constituents of which are supposed to be
asphalt, with niter and sulphur. --Ure.
Greek rose, the flower campion.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Greek \Greek\, n.
1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian;
also, the language of Greece.
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2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang]
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Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat
does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek.
--Sat. Rev.
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3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.
[Colloq.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Greek
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the
Greeks or the Greek language; "Greek mythology"; "a
Grecian robe" [syn: Greek, Grecian, Hellenic]
n 1: the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of
languages [syn: Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language]
2: a native or inhabitant of Greece [syn: Greek, Hellene]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
greek
greeking
1. To display text as abstract dots and lines
in order to give a preview of layout without actually being
legible. This is faster than drawing the characters correctly
which may require scaling or other transformations. Greeking
is particularly useful when displaying a reduced image of a
document where the text would be too small to be legible on
the display anyway.
A related technique is lorem ipsum.
(2006-09-18)