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Greek kalends

Greek kalends is the alternative form of Greek calends.

Meaning of Greek calends

Noun

Greek calends pl (plural only)

  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-only) A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly.
    • Blockheads, friends of my heart and liver, cousins of my tripe, are you ignorant that this symposium is as authentic as any of those tales of the Greek Calends, which you swallow and digest so easily, [...]?1923, [François Béroalde de Verville], “Origin of the Decretals”, in Arthur Machen, transl., Fantastic Tales or The Way to Attain—a Book Full of Pantagruelism Now Done for the First Time in English...

Questions about Greek kalends

What is Greek kalends the alternative form of?
Greek kalends is the alternative form of Greek calends.

Words near Greek kalends in the dictionary

  1. Greek god
  2. Greek gods
  3. Greek house
  4. Greek houses
  5. greek it
  6. Greek kalends
  7. Greek key
  8. Greek keys
  9. Greek letter
  10. Greek life
  11. Greek love

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Greek kalends (page history and authors); Greek calends (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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