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Webster 1913 Edition
Grecian
Gre′cian
,Noun.
1.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
2.
A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
Acts vi. 1.
☞ The Greek word rendered Grecian in the Authorized Version of the New Testament is translated Grecian Jew in the Revised Version.
6.
One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
De Quincey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Grecian
GRE'CIAN
,Adj.
GRE'CIAN
,Noun.
1.
One well versed in the Greek language.Definition 2025
Grecian
Grecian
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Adjective
Grecian (not comparable)
- (obsolete or poetic) Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).
- 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:
- Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.
- 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:
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Noun
Grecian (plural Grecians)
- (obsolete) A native or inhabitant of Greece.
- A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.
- (obsolete) A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
- (obsolete) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
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Derived terms
- (senior pupil at Christ's Hospital): Grecianship