Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χώρη ‎(khṓrē) (Ionic)

Noun

χώρᾱ • ‎(khṓrā) f ‎(genitive χώρας); first declension

1. location, place, spot (see Latin locus)
2. the proper place
3. one's place in life
4. piece of land: tract, land, field
5. country (opposite town), countryside
6. country, nation

Inflection

References

• χώρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χώρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χώρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χώρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5561”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Atarneus idem, page 1003.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • dominion idem, page 247.
  • estate idem, page 283.
  • Ilian idem, page 1013.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • landscape idem, page 475.
  • Picenum idem, page 1022.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • position idem, page 628.
  • post idem, page 629.
  • province idem, page 654.
  • quarter idem, page 663.
  • region idem, page 687.
  • room idem, page 721.
  • scenery idem, page 738.
  • situation idem, page 780.
  • space idem, page 797.
  • spot idem, page 804.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • tract idem, page 885.
  • vacancy idem, page 941.
  • zone idem, page 997.

Greek

Noun

χώρα • ‎(chóra) f ‎(plural χώρες)

1. (geography) country, land (the state, its people, a region of a country)
2. (geography) main town or village

Declension

Related terms

• ενδοχώρα f ‎(endochóra, “hinterland”)
• χωριό n ‎(chorió, “village”)
• χώρος m ‎(chóros, “environment”)
• χωρώ ‎(choró, “to hold”)

Coordinate terms

• πατρίδα f ‎(patrída, “homeland”)

Verb

χώρα • ‎(chóra)

1. second-person singular imperfective imperative of χωρώ ‎(choró)
2. second-person singular perfective imperative of χωρώ ‎(choró)