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hellenise

hellenise is the alternative form of Hellenise.

Verb capitalized: Hellenise

Hellenise (third-person singular simple present Hellenises, present participle Hellenising, simple past and past participle Hellenised)

  1. (UK, nonstandard) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Hellenize.
    • The ancient Greek historian Herodotus claimed that the forebears of the Lycians, the Trm̃mili, "sprang originally from Crete", though modern-day scholars believe they were an Anatolian people who became Hellenised after Alexander the Great seized the region from the Persians in 333 BCE.2023 September 7, Alastair Gill, “The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy”, in BBC Travel, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2023

Forms of hellenise

third-person singular presenthellenises
present participlehellenising
past participlehellenised
pasthellenised
third-person singular presentHellenises
present participleHellenising
past participleHellenised
pastHellenised

Words formed from hellenise

Questions about hellenise

What is hellenise the alternative form of?
Hellenise is the alternative form of Hellenise.
What part of speech is hellenise?
Hellenise is a verb.
What is the past tense of hellenise?
The past tense of hellenise is hellenised.

Words near hellenise in the dictionary

  1. Hellenicist
  2. Hellenicists
  3. Hellenicity
  4. Hellenisation
  5. Hellenisations
  6. hellenise
  7. hellenised
  8. Helleniser
  9. Hellenisers
  10. hellenises
  11. hellenising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hellenise (page history and authors); Hellenise (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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