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Hellenic

 
Dictionary: Hel·len·ic   (hĕ-lĕn'ĭk) pronunciation
adj.
Of or relating to the ancient Hellenes, their language, or their history; Greek.

n.
The branch of the Indo-European language family that consists only of Greek.


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Pertaining to the classical Greek period, roughly from 480 B.C. to the death of Alexander in 323 B.C.


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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
  Synonyms: Greek, Hellenic language


The adjective Hellenic has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures
  Synonyms: Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman

Meaning #2: relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization
  Synonyms: Hellenistic, Hellenistical
  Pertains to noun: Hellenism (meaning #1)

Meaning #3: of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks
  Synonyms: Greek, Grecian
  Pertains to noun: Greece (meaning #1)


 
 
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