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[ gree-shuhn ] / ˈgri ʃən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR Grecian ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveGreek (especially with reference to ancient Greece). nouna Greek. an expert in the Greek language or Greek literature. Origin of Grecian1540–50; <Latin Graeci(a) Greece + -an OTHER WORDS FROM Grecianpro-Grecian, adjectivepseudo-Grecian, adjectivequasi-Grecian, adjectiveWords nearby Greciangreat year, Great Zimbabwe, greave, greaves, grebe, Grecian, Grecian bend, Grecian profile, Grecism, Grecize, Greco Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for GrecianIt looks like a futuristic chaise longue, and is almost Grecian in its blinding-white color. Inside North America’s First Islamic Art Museum|Shinan Govani|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST At her Palm Springs wedding to Dina in 2012, she wore a Cymbeline dress that looked more like a Grecian slip. Flower Crowns Are Phony and Must Die|Sara Lieberman|September 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST Reasons for my Gingrich blues No lunar dreams or Grecian cruise No credit line from Tiffany's No saintly wife, his former squeeze. The Song of Newt Gingrich: From Longshot To Hotshot To No Shot||April 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST She was a singular beauty, Swedish looking and blond with an unusual profile—a very Grecian profile. Picasso's Greatest Muse|Paul Laster|April 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
She moved into the Borghese Palace in Rome and swanned about in transparent-ish frocks striking Grecian attitudes. Pauline Bonaparte: Dead Cool|Simon Doonan|November 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST The maintenance of the laws was, as in other Grecian cities, committed to the nomophylaces. A Manual of Ancient History|A. H. L. (Arnold Hermann Ludwig) Heeren She received him with an air of mystic calm, gracious and dignified as the high-priestess of a Grecian temple. King--of the Khyber Rifles|Talbot Mundy At the highest period of Grecian genius, the tragic and the comic poets introduced into their dramas the proverbial style. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Isaac Disraeli Grafted on a Grecian stock, every shoot bore Grecian fruit: and what was borrowed from mechanism was reproduced in beauty 184. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton Three hours passed as quietly as the wool-clad footsteps of the Grecian Fate. Overland|John William De Forest
British Dictionary definitions for Grecian
adjective(esp of beauty or architecture) conforming to Greek ideals, esp in being classically simple nouna scholar of or expert in the Greek language or literature Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |