Definition of Greek

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Definition of Greek
	Greek Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. Related Definitions: All, Also, As, Cheat, Grecian, Greece, Greek, It, Knave, Language, Me, Native, Of, One, Or, People, Pertaining, Something, Swindler, The, To, Was

Greek Quotations

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

For my part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John Ruskin

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Jose Marti

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton

Greek Translations

Greek in Afrikaans is Grieks, Griek
Greek in Dutch is Grieks
Greek in Finnish is kreikkalainen
greek in German is Grieche, griechisch
Greek in Italian is Greco
Greek in Portuguese is Grego
Greek in Spanish is griego, grieco
Greek in Swedish is grekisk, grek

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