(a.) Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.
(n.) A native or citizen of Athens.
Example Sentences:
(1) What she'd actually done was ram a friendly ship (all hands lost) to put off the Athenian vessel that was advancing her way.
(2) The temple itself was built in the 5th century BC by the city-state of Athens for Athena, its patron goddess, and it housed the tribute the Athenians received from the other city-states subject to them: hardly a symbol of Greek democracy or fellow-feeling.
(3) Earlier this year Athenian newspapers were full of reports of Germans "fearing for their lives" if they visited Greece.
(4) But while some may view that as poor remuneration for 37 years of welding carriages in an Athenian factory, Rallakis counts himself lucky.
(5) The Mytilenian debate of 427BC is perhaps one of the ancient world’s best examples of an argument with something vital at stake: following an unsuccessful insurrection in the city of Mytilene, the Athenians had voted to put to death not only the uprising’s leaders, but all Mytilenian men, and to enslave its women and children.
(6) From the Garden of Eden, to the Exodus, Athenian democracy, the Roman Senate, Magna Carta, the glorious revolution and American independence, the story of our civilisation has been the story of freedom and our struggles to achieve it.
(7) A common-source epidemic of hepatitis A occurred in an Athenian institution boarding 38 children (mean age 4.8 years).
(8) But I won't here: I write this as an Athenian, not a journalist.
(9) But with joblessness at an all time high, Athenians, increasingly, are choosing to vote with their feet.
(10) And five blocks away from Syntagma I had a quiet chat with British colleagues and fellow Athenians.
(11) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
(12) Around” is the operative word, because the Greeks have gone to great lengths to unite their Athenian antiquities with a pedestrian path.
(13) Somehow, he could make Connemara and Leeds sound Athenian.
(14) The current political scene might have been radically different if Remain had had Diodotus on its side: if you could persuade an assembly of Athenians bent on retribution to spare the lives of a group of rebels, then you could probably best Boris Johnson.
(15) Last week, in a glimpse of what the future might bring, elderly Athenians stood for hours outside banks as the government struggled to pay pensions.
(16) In the research programme of the Department of Microbiology of the Athens University the nature of the mycological flora of the Athenian air was studied.
(17) The first surviving text on training cavalry mounts is by the Athenian General Xenophon (400 BC) who reveals a sensitive understanding of the horse.
(18) "Two and a half thousand years ago," it reads, "Socrates declared that he was not an Athenian or a Greek but a simple citizen of the world.
(19) Within the 6-year period a substantial increase in the prevalence of symptoms of depression in all geographic areas was observed, with the Athenian respondents expressing a higher number of symptoms of depression than their counterparts from the other areas.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lysistrata Haranguing the Athenian Women, by Aubrey Beardsley.
Draco
Definition:
(n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.
(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
(n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dracotoxin, a protein possessing toxic, membrane depolarizing and hemolytic activities, was isolated from the crude venom of the greater weever fish Trachinus draco.
(2) was described from the flying lizard Draco maculatus (Agamidae) collected near Bangkok, Thailand.
(3) It all depends on whether players invest in the IP… Crimson Dragon Crimson Dragon Once upon a time this game was called Project Draco and, like Ryse, it was a Kinect title.
(4) Latin pop album: Vida, Draco Rosa Latin rock, urban or alternative album: Treinta Dias, La Santa Cecilia.
(5) Dracotoxin represents a major toxic component of T. draco venom.
(6) Crude venom of the greater weever fish, Trachinus draco was analyzed to assess its toxicity, stability and biological properties.