[greek] 
| 1. | of or pertaining to Greece, the Greeks, or their language. |
| 2. | pertaining to the Greek Orthodox Church. |
| 3. | noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic form of writing and employing some letters that originally represented consonants for vowel sounds, which was used from about the beginning of the first millennium b.c. for the writing of Greek, and from which the Latin, Cyrillic, and other alphabets were derived. |
| 4. | a native or inhabitant of Greece. |
| 5. | the language of the ancient Greeks and any of the languages that have developed from it, as Hellenistic Greek, Biblical Greek, the Koine, and Modern Greek. Abbreviation: Gk, Gk. |
| 6. | Informal. anything unintelligible, as speech, writing, etc.: This contract is Greek to me. |
| 7. | a member of the Greek Church. |
| 8. | Hellenic (def. 3). |
| 9. | a person who belongs to a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority. |
| 10. | Archaic. a cheater, esp. one who cheats at cards: usually considered offensive. |
[he-len-ik, -lee-nik] | 1. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def. 3). |
| 2. | Greek. |
| 3. | Also called Greek. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, comprising a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern dialects and languages, all of them called Greek. |
| 4. | Katharevusa. |
| Greek (grēk) n.
[Middle English Grek, from Old English Grēcas, the Greeks, from Latin Graecus, Greek, from Greek Graikos, tribal name.] |
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Greek
Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between "Greek" and "Grecian" (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed to a Jew (Rom. 2:9, 10). The latter, meaning properly "one who speaks Greek," is a foreign Jew opposed to a home Jew who dwelt in Palestine. The word "Grecians" in Acts 11:20 should be "Greeks," denoting the heathen Greeks of that city, as rendered in the Revised Version according to the reading of the best manuscripts ("Hellenes").