English > Greece: 2 senses > noun 1, location| Meaning | A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil. |
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| Synonyms | Hellenic Republic, Ellas |
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| Instance of | Balkan country, Balkan nation, Balkan state | Any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
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| Member of | European Union, EU, European Community, EC, European Economic Community, EEC, Common Market, Europe | An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation / cooperation among its members |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO | An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security |
| Members | Grecian | A native or resident of Greece |
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| Greek, Hellene | A native or inhabitant of Greece |
| Part of | Europe | The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia) |
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| Parts | Achaea | A region of ancient Greece on the north coast of the Peloponnese |
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| Actium | An ancient town on a promontory in western Greece |
| Aegina, Aigina | An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf |
| Arcadia | A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese |
| Argos | An ancient city in southeastern Greece |
| Athens, Athinai, capital of Greece, Greek capital | The capital and largest city of Greece |
| Athos, Mount Athos | An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century |
| Attica | The territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken |
| Boeotia | A district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens |
| Chios, Khios | An island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey |
| Corinth, Korinthos | The modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens |
| Crete, Kriti | The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean |
| Cyclades, Kikladhes | A group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean |
| Delphi | An ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus |
| Dodecanese, Dhodhekanisos | A group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea |
| Doris | A small region of ancient Greece where the Doric dialect was spoken |
| Epirus | An ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC |
| Ithaca, Ithaki | A Greek island to the west of Greece |
| Laconia | An ancient region of southern Greece in the southeastern Peloponnesus |
| Lemnos, Limnos | A Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea |
| Lesbos, Lesvos, Mytilene | An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea |
| Mycenae | An ancient city is southern Greece |
| Nemea | A valley in southeastern Greece where the Nemean Games were held |
| Olympus, Mount Olympus, Mt. Olympus, Olimbos | A mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast |
| Parnassus, Mount Parnassus, Liakoura | (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived |
| Peloponnese, Peloponnesus, Peloponnesian Peninsula | The southern peninsula of Greece |
| Rhodes, Rodhos | A Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast |
| Saronic Gulf, Gulf of Aegina | A gulf of the Aegean on the southeastern coast of Greece |
| Stagira, Stagirus | An ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born |
| Thessalia, Thessaly | A fertile plain on the Aegean Sea in east central Greece |
| Thessaloniki, Salonika, Salonica, Thessalonica | A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea |
| Region of | Actium | The naval battle in which Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian's fleet under Agrippa in 31 BC |
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| Bacchus | (classical mythology) god of wine |
| Balkan Wars | Two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe |
| Chaeronea | A battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC) |
| Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language | The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages |
| Lepanto, Battle of Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope |
| Leuctra, battle of Leuctra | Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC |
| Mantinea, Mantineia | The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states |
| Marathon, battle of Marathon | A battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians |
| Midas | (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold |
| Navarino, battle of Navarino | A decisive naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827) |
| Pharsalus, battle of Pharsalus | Caesar defeated Pompey in 48 BC |
| Revolutionary Organization 17 November, 17 November | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States |
| Revolutionary People's Struggle, ELA | An extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 |
| Sisyphus | (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill |
| Thermopylae, battle of Thermopylae | A famous battle in 480 BC |
| Trojan Horse, Wooden Horse | A large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War |
| cacodemon, cacodaemon | An evil spirit |
| choragus | (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival |
| dithyramb | (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) |
| eudemon, eudaemon, good spirit | A benevolent spirit |
| laurel, laurel wreath, bay wreath | (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory |
| loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid | A word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., 'monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) |
| optative mood, optative | A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope / hope |
| paean, pean | (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) |
| pantheon | (antiquity) a temple to all the gods |
| sibyl | (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet |
| souvlaki, souvlakia | made of lamb |
| torch race | (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner to the next |
| Spanish | Grecia, República Helénica |
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| Catalan | Grecia, Grècia |
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| Adjectives | Greek, Grecian, Hellenic | of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language |
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| romaic | relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language |
