greek
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Adjective (1)
- of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language“Greek mythology”“a Grecian robe”Synonyms: GrecianHellenicRelating to Hellenic Republic
Noun (3)greeks
- the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languagesSynonyms: HellenicHellenic languageType of Indo-European, Indo-European languageKinds Modern Greek, Late Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine, Medieval Greek
- a native or inhabitant of GreeceSynonyms: HelleneType of EuropeanKinds Athenian, Corinthian, Theban, Ephesian, Ionian, Lesbian, Spartan, Thessalian, Thessalonian, Mycenaen +6 moreMember of Greece, Hellenic Republic
- the Greek language as spoken and written todaySynonyms: Modern GreekNew GreekModern Greek languageNew Greek languageType of Hellenic, Hellenic languageKinds Romaic, Katharevusa
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Translations
Proper noun language of the Greek people
- Spanish
- griego
- French
- grec
- German
- Griechisch
- Italian
- greco
- Portuguese
- grego
- Turkish
- Yunanca
- Russian
- гре́ческий язы́к gréčeskij jazýk
- Arabic
- اليُونَانِيَّة al-yūnāniyya
- Chinese
- 希腊语 Xīlàyǔ
- Japanese
- ギリシャ語 Girisha-go
35 more languages
- Dutch
- Grieks
- Polish
- grecki
- Swedish
- grekiska
- Greek
- ελληνικά elliniká
- Korean
- 그리스어 geuriseueo
- Indonesian
- bahasa Yunani
- Vietnamese
- tiếng Hy Lạp
- Hungarian
- görög
- Portuguese (PT)
- grego
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 希臘語 Xīlàyǔ
- Albanian
- greqisht
- Breton
- gresianeg
- Catalan
- grec
- Corsican
- grecu
- Czech
- řečtina
- Danish
- græsk
- Esperanto
- greka
- Estonian
- kreeka keel
- Finnish
- kreikka
- Georgian
- ბერძნული berʒnuli
- Hebrew
- יוונית yevanít
- Icelandic
- gríska
- Kurdish
- yewnanî
- Latvian
- grieķu
- Lithuanian
- graikų kalba
- Norwegian
- gresk
- Romanian
- greacă
- Scottish Gaelic
- Greugais
- Serbo-Croatian
- grčki
- Slovak
- gréčtina
- Slovenian
- grščina
- Swahili
- Kigiriki
- Walloon
- grek
- Welsh
- Groeg
- Yiddish
- גריכיש grikhish
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian.
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
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. Andrew Ure — Greek rose, the flower campion.
1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. slang
Without a confederate the... game of baccarat does not... offer many chances for the Greek.— Sat. Rev.
3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. colloquial
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<text, graphics> 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)