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Ellada

Ellada proper noun: greece.

Proper noun

Ellada

  1. (rare) Greece.
    • How and in what manner is this transaction to be accomplished? / In the manner in which the Greeks regained possession of their historic land—the Ellada and its islands. / As a reward to Ellada of antiquity for her presenting the world with her philosophy, art and wonderful science; as an...1902, The Maccabæan, volume III, New York, N.Y., page 167
    • “Whence come ye, little sisters?” Aunt Sidonia hailed them. / “Out of Ellada, from the Island of Candia!”1928, Dmitri Merejkowski, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, page 115

Examples of Ellada in a sentence

  • Settled life on the Black Sea Coast was started in the sixth century b.c. by Greeks from Ellada who founded Pantikapea, Phanagoria, Chersones and other thriving colonies.1958, Kathleen Taylor, Going to Russia? A Popular Guide for Tourists, London: Lawrence & Wishart, page 161:
  • For him, Christianity is only ascetic (‘the black, colourless shadows of monks’ on the marble of Ellada in his Julian the Apostate).2010, Aleksandr Chudakov, translated by Olga Tabachnikova and Adam Ure, “Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: Two Types of Artistic-Philosophical...
  • In 1978, as Ellada was about to join the European Economic Community (EEC), its per capita GDP was just 5% below the European average PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) basis.2013, Dimitri Harakidas, The 99 …and the 99 Choices That We All Need to Embrace in Order to Improve the Way Our Planet, and Everything Else...
  • I took to Ellada when I was a toddler: Mum and me visited it at the time.2021, Anastasiia Deniz Mitchell, Prodigy. Roxanne Mitchell’s Diary, →ISBN:

Origin of Ellada

Learned borrowing from Greek Ελλάδα (Elláda). Doublet of Hellas.

Questions about Ellada

What does Ellada mean?
Ellada means greece.
How do you use Ellada in a sentence?
Settled life on the Black Sea Coast was started in the sixth century b.c. by Greeks from Ellada who founded Pantikapea, Phanagoria, Chersones and other thriving colonies.
What part of speech is Ellada?
Ellada is a proper noun.

Words near Ellada in the dictionary

  1. elkweed
  2. elkwood
  3. ell
  4. Ella
  5. ellachick
  6. Ellada
  7. ellagic
  8. ellagic acid
  9. ellagitannin
  10. ellagitannins
  11. ellagotannin

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