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Spar⋅tan

[spahr-tn]
–adjective
1. Also, Spar⋅tan⋅ic [spahr-tan-ik] . of or pertaining to Sparta or its people.
2. suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
3. brave; undaunted.
–noun
4. a native or inhabitant of Sparta.
5. a person of Spartan characteristics.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L Spartānus, equiv. to Spart(a) Sparta (< Doric Gk Spártā) + -ānus -an


Spar⋅tan⋅ism, noun
Spar⋅tan⋅ly, Spar⋅tan⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb


1. See austere.
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