Definition of Greek. Meaning of Greek. Synonyms of Greek

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Definition of Greek

Greek
Greek Greek, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian.] Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends. Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross. Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire. Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. --Ure. Greek rose, the flower campion.
Greek
Greek Greek, n. 1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece. 2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang] Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. --Sat. Rev. 3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. [Colloq.]

Meaning of Greek from wikipedia

- Gr**** or gr**** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gr**** may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: Gr****s,...
- names Greece and Gr**** are derived, via the Latin Graecia and Graecus, from the name of the Graeci (Γραικοί, Graikoí), one of first ancient Gr**** tribes...
- most ethnic Gr****s live within the borders of the modern Gr**** state or in Cyprus. The Gr**** genocide and po****tion exchange between Greece and Turkey...
- Ancient Gr**** (Ἑλληνῐκή, ****ēnikḗ; [****ɛːnikɛ́ː]) includes the forms of the Gr**** language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around...
- The Gr**** alphabet has been used to write the Gr**** language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet...
- Gr**** (Modern Gr****: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, [eliniˈka]; Ancient Gr****: Ἑλληνική, romanized: ****ēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language, constituting...
- Gr**** mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Gr****s, and a genre of ancient Gr**** folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...
- Ancient Greece (Ancient Gr****: Ἑλλάς, romanized: ****ás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, existing from the Gr**** Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
- The Gr**** is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, pla**** by actor Bill Raymond. The Gr**** is the head of an international smuggling organization...
- Koine Gr**** (ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinḕ diál****s, lit. 'the common dialect'), also variously known as ****enistic Gr****, common Attic, the Alexandrian...