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Cleisthenic

Cleisthenic adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of Athenian lawgiver Cleisthenes.

Adjective

Cleisthenic (comparative more Cleisthenic, superlative most Cleisthenic)

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of Athenian lawgiver Cleisthenes.

Forms of Cleisthenic

comparativemore Cleisthenic
superlativemost Cleisthenic

Origin of Cleisthenic

From Cleisthenes + -ic.

Questions about Cleisthenic

What does Cleisthenic mean?
Cleisthenic means pertaining to or characteristic of Athenian lawgiver Cleisthenes.
What part of speech is Cleisthenic?
Cleisthenic is an adjective.

Words near Cleisthenic in the dictionary

  1. cleidothaerids
  2. cleidotomies
  3. cleidotomy
  4. Cleisthenean
  5. Cleisthenian
  6. Cleisthenic
  7. cleistocarp
  8. cleistocarpous
  9. cleistocarps
  10. cleistogam
  11. cleistogamic

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