Gk.

Proper noun

Greek (countable and uncountable, plural Greeks)

1. The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.
   • For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not...1925, Virginia Woolf, “On Not Knowing Greek”, in [Leonard Woolf], editor, Collected Essays, volume I, London: Hogarth Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 1
2. The written form of these languages.
3. A surname.

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