Definitions for Graeco-Roman

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Graeco-Roman Grae·co-Ro·man

Spelling: [gree-koh-roh-muh n, grek-oh-]

IPA: /ˌgri koʊˈroʊ mən, ˌgrɛk oʊ-/

Graeco-Roman is a 12 letter English word.

You can make 610 anagrams from letters in Graeco-Roman (-aacegmnoorr).

Definitions for Graeco-Roman

noun

1. a style of wrestling in which the contestants are forbidden to trip, tackle, and use holds below the waist. Compare catch-as-catch-can (def 1).

adjective

1. of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics:
2. pertaining to or designating a style of the fine arts developed in Rome or the Roman Empire from the middle of the 1st century b.c. to the early 4th century a.d., chiefly characterized by an apparent indebtedness to Greek forms or motifs modified by technological innovation, monumental scale, the combination of symbolic with narrative treatment of subject matter, and an emphasis on the commemorative aspect of a work of art.

adjective, noun

1. Greco-Roman.

Examples for Graeco-Roman

I have said that he took up art where Graeco-Roman Antiquity had left it.

From now on all distinction ceases, and it is scarcely possible to speak of a Roman in contrast to a Graeco-Roman cult.

In the Graeco-Roman religion the advances which appear in Christianity are already prefigured.

He had to sue two Graeco-Roman wrestlers for board and attach their box-office receipts.

So, we may be sure, the decadent artists of the Graeco-Roman world were not rebels.

Back of him was the double tradition of learning, the Irish and the Graeco-Roman.

So far as we know, there were no rebels of that kind in the art of the Graeco-Roman world.

The face of this juvenile was that of a Graeco-Roman satyr to the furthest degree of completeness.

That is the only way in which we can be superior to the Graeco-Roman world in the matter of art.

He destroyed the Graeco-Roman civilization and the world reverted to utter darkness for four centuries.