Definitions for Hellenic

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Hellenic Hel·len·ic

Spelling: [he-len-ik, -lee-nik]

IPA: /hɛˈlɛn ɪk, -ˈli nɪk/

Hellenic is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in Hellenic (ceehilln).

Definitions for Hellenic

noun

1. Also called Greek. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, comprising a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern dialects and languages, all of them called Greek.
2. Katharevusa.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
2. Greek.

Origin of Hellenic

First recorded in 1635-45, Hellenic is from the Greek word Hellēnikós of, pertaining to the Greeks. See Hellene, -ic

Examples for Hellenic

Is it simply and solely Oriental, or general, and Hellenic also?

Notice, too, how little is said of the bloodshed; that is Hellenic as well as Xenophontine, I fancy.

Important for the conception of Hellenic democracy (cf. 17).

Hellenic war ethics: non-combatant tillers of the soil to be let alone.

And will not the city, which you are founding, be an Hellenic city?

Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world that I would know.

A nice touch: we learn to know Gadatas and Xenophon also, and the Hellenic mind.

Again, as to the devastation of Hellenic territory or the burning of houses, what is to be the practice?

Xenophon reveals himself and the Hellenic feeling with regard to war and its use.

In this manner the Hellenic force were persuaded—that is to say, the majority of them.