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adj. of or pertaining to Greece, of Greek origin
 
n. native of Greece, resident of Greece
 
n. Greek language


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Greek
Greek may refer to anything related to Greece, including Greek culture and Greek history. It may also refer to:Greek alphabetGreek language, or, more specifically:Ancient GreekKoine GreekMedieval GreekModern GreekGreeks, a nation and a peopleIn other:Greek to me, an idiom/dead metaphor in English, claiming that an expression is incomprehensibleGreeks (finance), a concept in mathematical financeGreek system, organizations found at many colleges and universitiesGreek (TV series), an ABC Family showSee also:Hellenic 
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Greeks
The Greeks (, ) are a nation and ethnic group who have populated Greece and the area of the Aegean Sea for over 4,000 years. Today they are primarily found in the Balkan peninsula of southeastern Europe, the Greek islandsCyprus, and throughout the world as part of the Greek diaspora.Ancient Greek colonies and communities were established throughout the Mediterranean, including southern Italy, Marseilles, and Barcelona, but Greek people have always concentrated around the Aegean coasts, where the Greek language has been spoken since antiquity. The Mycenaeans were the first historical people to arrive in the area now referred to as 'Greece'. According to Thucydides, the name of Hellas spread from a valley in Thessaly to all Greek-speaking peoples through Homer's works.
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Greek
Noun
1. the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
(synonym) Hellenic, Hellenic language
(hypernym) Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite
(hyponym) Modern Greek
(classification) Greece, Hellenic Republic, Ellas
2. a native or inhabitant of Greece
(synonym) Hellene
(hypernym) European
(hyponym) Achaean, Achaian
(member-holonym) Greece, Hellenic Republic, Ellas
Adjective
1. of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; "Greek mythology"; "a grecian robe"
(synonym) Grecian, Hellenic
(pertainym) Greece, Hellenic Republic, Ellas


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Greek
(n.)
Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.
  
 
(n.)
A swindler; a knave; a cheat.
  
 
(n.)
A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
  
 
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
  

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1. <textgraphics> To display text as abstract dots and lines in order to give a preview of layout without actually being legible. This is faster than drawing the characters correctly which may require scaling or other transformations. Greeking is particularly useful when displaying a reduced image of a document where the text would be too small to be legible on the display anyway.
2. lorem ipsum.
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