Definitions for metic

metic met·ic

Spelling: [met-ik]
IPA: /ˈmɛt ɪk/

Metic is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in metic (ceimt).

Definitions for metic

noun

  1. an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.

Origin of metic

1800-10; Late Latin metycus, variant of metoecus Greek métoikos emigrant, equivalent to met- met- + -oikos dwelling

Examples for metic

It is Plato's greatest concession to the metic, as the bestowal of freedom is his greatest concession to the slave.

Plato never thinks of making the metic, much less the slave, a citizen.

A metic must purchase the choice fruit; but a stranger may pluck for himself and his attendant.

The freed man, when liberated, does not become a citizen, but is only a non-citizen or metic.

The informer, if a slave or a metic, shall be rewarded by having the article made over to him.

This shall be the second law: He who engages in retail trade must be either a metic or a stranger.

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