Greek /grēk/

Of Greece, its people, or its language

1. A native or citizen of Greece, of an ancient Greek state, or of a colony elsewhere of an ancient Greek state
2. The language of Greece
3. Any language of which one is ignorant, jargon, anything unintelligible (informal)
4. A member of the Greek Church
5. A hellenizing Jew (Bible)
6. A cunning rogue (archaic)
7. An Irishman (old slang)

Greekˈdom noun

1. The Greek world
2. A Greek community

Greekˈing or greekˈing noun

(as in desktop publishing, advertising, etc) representation of text and graphics as straight lines, random characters or other graphic convention, to give an overall impression of the page layout

Greekˈish adjective

Greekˈless adjective

Without knowledge of Greek

Greekˈling noun (archaic)

A contemptible Greek

Greekˈness noun

Greek architecture noun

The style of architecture developed in ancient Greece (Corinthian, Doric, Ionic)

Greek Church or Greek Orthodox Church see Eastern Church under east

Greek cross noun

An upright cross with arms of equal length

greeked text noun (computing)

A method of displaying very small text in which a simple symbol replaces the actual text in order to reduce the time needed for display while retaining the appearance of the layout

Greek fire noun

A substance (of unknown composition) that caught fire when wetted, used in war against enemy ships, long a secret of the Byzantine Greeks

Greek gift noun

A treacherous gift (from Virgil's Aeneid 2.49)

Greek god noun

A classic example of male beauty

Greek key (pattern) noun

A fret pattern

Greek letter society or Greek-letter society noun

(in US universities) a social, professional or honorary fraternity or sorority, using a combination of Greek letters as a title, such as Phi Beta Kappa

Greek love, Greek style or Greek way noun (US sl)

Anal sex

Greek nose noun

A Grecian nose

Greek salad noun

A salad with feta, tomatoes, cucumber, onion and olives.

the Greek calends

Never (the Greeks having no calends)

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