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Archaic Greek

Archaic Greek adjective: of or pertaining to a period in Ancient Greek history that lasted from c. 700–500 BC.

Adjective

Archaic Greek (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of or pertaining to a period in Ancient Greek history that lasted from c. 700–500 BC.
  2. Of or pertaining to the Archaic Greek language.

Proper noun

Archaic Greek

  1. The early form of the Greek language that was spoken from c. 800–500 BC.

Questions about Archaic Greek

What does Archaic Greek mean?
Archaic Greek means of or pertaining to a period in Ancient Greek history that lasted from c. 700–500 BC.
What part of speech is Archaic Greek?
Archaic Greek can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Archaic Greek in the dictionary

  1. archaeus
  2. archai
  3. archaic
  4. Archaic Chinese
  5. Archaic Egyptian
  6. Archaic Greek
  7. Archaic Latin
  8. archaic smile
  9. archaic smiles
  10. archaical
  11. archaically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Archaic Greek (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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