Definitions for Spartiate

Spartiate Spar·ti·ate

Spelling: [spahr-tee-eyt, -shee-]
IPA: /ˈspɑr tiˌeɪt, -ʃi-/

Spartiate is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 568 anagrams from letters in Spartiate (aaeiprstt).

Definitions for Spartiate

noun

  1. a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.

Origin of Spartiate

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Spartiātēs Doric Greek Spartiā́tēs, equivalent to Spartiā́(s) of Sparta + -tēs personal noun suffix

Examples for Spartiate

The Vanguard had been engaged with the Spartiate and the Aquilon.

A tremendous crash followed his words, and the Vanguard was seen to pour a broadside into the Spartiate—as before related.

A shell dropped upon the deck of the Spartiate, almost amidships.

They labored for a Spartiate proprietor who took from them the greater part of the harvest.

A Spartiate poet compares the Helots to "loaded asses stumbling under their burdens and the blows inflicted."

He shall have the sword which he brought me off the Spartiate when she struck.

The Spartiate has caused us considerable uneasiness, having unfortunately got aground by bordering too near the light-house.

The ‘Vanguard’ (our ship) was the first which anchored outside, within half pistol-shot of the ‘Spartiate.’

She opened a tremendous fire on the Spartiate at half pistol-range.

By this we were nearly unmanageable, and cracking masts and yards in close contact with the Spartiate.

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