| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  gr k |
| NOUN: | 1a. The Indo-European language of the Greeks. b. Greek language and literature from the middle of the eighth century b.c. to the end of the third century a.d., especially the Attic Greek of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c. 2a. A native or inhabitant of Greece. b. A person of Greek ancestry. 3. Informal A member of a fraternity or sorority that has its name composed of Greek letters. 4. Informal Something that is unintelligible: Quantum mechanics is Greek to me. | | ADJECTIVE: | Of or relating to Greece or its people, language, or culture. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English Grek, from Old English Grcas, the Greeks, from Latin Graecus, Greek, from Greek Graikos, tribal name.
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