(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.
Hellenic
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Greek government’s defiant stance came as the head of the Hellenic Chambers of Commerce , Constantine Michalos, said he did not believe Greece’s banks would be able to reopen next Tuesday without further funding, telling the Daily Telegraph he had been told cash reserves were down to €500m.
(2) In a statement on the Hellenic Football Federation’s website, the HFF president, Giorgos Sarris, admitted he was sorry for ever hiring Ranieri.
(3) Maseeh Rahman Greece Following the Hellenic parliament’s failure to select a new president at the end of last year, early elections have been called for 25 January.
(4) The press officer of the Hellenic police restated the ministry's commitment to establishing a special response team to combat racist violence.
(5) The ascendancy of Asklepios--as representative of the remedial, medical model--over Hygeia--symbolizing the preventive, public health approach--is traced from Hellenic mythology to present reality.
(6) LONDON (Standard & Poor's) July 4, 2011 On June 13, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered the long-term rating on the Hellenic Republic (Greece) to 'CCC' from 'B'.
(7) In summary, the growing risk that the Hellenic Republic might engage in a distressed debt restructuring was one of the reasons we lowered its rating on June 13 (see, "Long-term Sovereign Rating On Greece Cut To 'CCC'; Outlook Negative").
(8) A crucial €18bn cash injection to stabilise Greece's banks has been held up at the European financial stability fund's Greek offshoot, the Hellenic financial stability fund (HFSF), for nearly two weeks with officials in Brussels refusing to release the funds because of the political instability in the wake of the elections.
(9) "Such reports not only are false, but actually hinder the efforts of the Hellenic Republic to address its challenges at this critical juncture," the Greek government said in a written statement.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters march in Thessaloniki against efforts by Hellenic Gold, a subsidiary of the Canadian firm Eldorado Gold, to mine the Skouries quarry on Mount Kakkavos, in the Halkidiki Peninsula in Northern Greece.
(11) The programme was set up to encourage Greece to leave the euro and that plan didn’t work, so now we are stuck with the privatisation arrangement that nobody, not even the original creditors, ever intended to happen.” Up for sale Helliniko Olympic complex Ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki 14 regional airports PPC power company, including ADMIE, the electricity transmission operator DEPA natural gas company Hellenic Petroleum Hellenic Post Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company Xenia Hotels in Rhodes Marinas of Chios, Pylos and other locations Source: Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund
(12) Thanos Dokos, a defence analyst and director general of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, noted that the latest figures nevertheless reflected a sharp drop since the start of the Greek crisis.
(13) The Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies said the picture was more nuanced.
(14) In the two years since the 2009 elections not one privatisation has taken place – apart from selling off the remaining state holding in Hellenic Telecoms Organisation to Deutsche Telekom.
(15) At the combined Annual Meeting of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society and the Middle East Neurosurgical Society in Athens on April 10-13, 1983, a round table discussion of neurosurgical training in the Middle East took place.
(16) "The Hellenic republic today is in heart-rending turmoil, a humiliating sovereign debt crisis has brought Greece to the brink of absolute ruin.
(17) TV and radio stations of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, or ERT, were pulled off the air in several parts of the country from about 11pm (9pm BST), about an hour before the government said all signals would go dead, although satellite broadcasts continued.
(18) Climate data was provided by the Hellenic National Meteorological Service.
(19) Their beliefs are alien to our beliefs and way of life," said Nikos Mouyiaris, co-founder of the Chicago-based Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), whose mission is to promote human rights and democratic values.
(20) After retirement in 1995, he found a new platform, and a new source of conviviality, as a guest lecturer on Swan Hellenic cruises.