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ANCIENT GREEK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Greek language prior to the Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Ancient Greek" is a kind of...):

Greek; Hellenic; Hellenic language (the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Ancient Greek"):

Attic; Classical Greek; Ionic; Ionic dialect (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia)

Aeolic; Aeolic dialect; Eolic (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis)

Arcadic; Arcadic dialect (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians)

Doric; Doric dialect (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris)

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