(n.) The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
Example Sentences:
(1) squeaks Tess, spinning around outside the reception at MediaCityUK, pointing at the deserted metallic acropolis.
(2) The following day, politicians and eurocrats began scrambling to hammer out a larger rescue package for Greece: 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian That was the time when puns about Acropolis Now, and ‘making a drachma out of a crisis’ were in vogue: Greek debt crisis, 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian But there wasn’t much time for jokes.
(3) More than three years after Europe's ongoing debt crisis erupted in the shadow of the Acropolis, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, also wanted to make clear that the country, for so long at the centre of that drama, may not have survived had it not been for Paris.
(4) And sell the Acropolis too!” was how the German tabloid Bild summed up their idea.
(5) In 1998, Kas turned down an offer by Calvin Klein to raise funds for the construction of the New Acropolis Museum in lieu of showcasing the fashion house's collection at the 2nd century AD Herod Atticus theatre beneath the Acropolis.
(6) Price said the issue was timely because the Greeks are preparing for the official opening in June of a new €129m Acropolis museum to showcase the Parthenon sculptures.
(7) DEBT MARKET TERMS An EU flag flies over the temple of Parthenon on Acropolis hill in Athens.
(8) At 28 Veikou Street, the office Syriza runs almost within view of the Acropolis, supporters are not shy of expressing disappointment.
(9) "I've also heard the suggestion we should sell the Acropolis," Droutsas said.
(10) The pedestrian walk around the Acropolis is also another place where people hang out when the sun falls.
(11) The restoration of the Edicule of the Tomb is being undertaken by a team of Greek conservationists from the National Technical University of Athens , which has previously worked on the Acropolis.
(12) Half of this snapshot is in Athens beneath the blue sky above the Acropolis.
(13) Iran meanwhile has Susa, now the delightfully named Shush, administrative centre of Shush Country, which has an acropolis – a sure sign of ancient city status – that is carbon-dated to around 4,200BC, and evidence of permanent homemaking going back another 800 years.
(14) Greece has been campaigning for the Marbles' return for decades, and – just before the recession – built a spectacular museum with windows facing the stripped temple on the Acropolis hill.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The new $137m demountable acropolis built by the Australian government to house refugees when they are freed It could soon be restored, Parkop says.
(16) Meanwhile, one of the fragments of the frieze that remained in Greece , newly mounted in the Acropolis museum, is eroded by pollution and so horribly neglected by that long independent country that it can hardly be recognised.
(17) Seated in her office beneath the Acropolis, Anna Diamantopoulou, a former EU commissioner, shakes her head in disbelief.
(18) 4 May 2010: Greek protesters storm the Acropolis as markets lose faith As anger erupts across Athens at the scale of the cutbacks that Greece must now implement, stock markets fall sharply and gold hits a record high as investors start to doubt whether the €110bn bailout will actually solve Greece problems.
(19) In the area between Kabul and Peshawar, one fifth-century Chinese traveller counted no fewer than 2,400 such shrines – as well as a scattering of well-planned classical cities, acropoli, amphitheatres and stupas .
(20) At the time of the carvings’ removal, the Acropolis was a citadel and Elgin (though this does not justify his mutilation of the monument) would have required a firman, or written decree, to cart them away.
Grecian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek.
(n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
(n.) A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
(n.) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
Example Sentences:
(1) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(2) Data analyses show significant heterogeneity in allelic frequencies at two enzyme-coding loci (ACO1 and ADH) and a relatively high estimate of genetic distance between samples from Little Grecian Rocks Reef and Grecian Rocks Reef.
(3) Colonies of the elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), possessing raised, whitened, irregularly shaped skeletal protuberances, were discovered at Carysfort Reef and Grecian Rocks, Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, Key Largo, FL.
(4) Her accent slides endearingly over little Grecian potholes.
(5) Or, on a bad day, Pat Butcher after an experiment with Grecian 2000.
(6) "Art is not yet in so high an estimation with us, as to obtain so great a sacrifice as the ancients made, especially the Grecians; who suffered themselves to be represented naked, whether they were generals, lawgivers, or kings."
(7) Interwar Paris was marred for Henry Miller by the fact that, as he put it, “The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced Lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance” – or anybody’s glance but his.
(8) But a Mac cannot by definition meet Keats's stipulation, regarding the Grecian urn, that "a thing of beauty is joy forever" – for it is Jobs's task to make his own ideas redundant.
(9) Unlike a Grecian urn, no great poet has written an ode to one.