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Greecian

Greecian is the obsolete form of Grecian.

Meaning of Grecian

Adjective

Grecian (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).
    • Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103
    Synonyms:
    Hellenic

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Forms of Greecian

Adjective
comparativemore Greecian
superlativemost Greecian
Noun
pluralGreecians

Questions about Greecian

What is Greecian the obsolete form of?
Greecian is the obsolete form of Grecian.

Words near Greecian in the dictionary

  1. greebles
  2. greebling
  3. greebo
  4. greebos
  5. Greece
  6. Greecian
  7. Greecians
  8. greecious
  9. greed
  10. greed monster
  11. greed monsters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Greecian (page history and authors); Grecian (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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