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Spartanlike

Spartanlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a Spartan.

Adjective

Spartanlike (comparative more Spartanlike, superlative most Spartanlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a Spartan.
    • One of the core Young principles is, "More Spartanlike teams tend to win championships."1990 December 23, James Traub, “DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE”, in The New York Times

Forms of Spartanlike

comparativemore Spartanlike
superlativemost Spartanlike

Origin of Spartanlike

From Spartan + -like.

Questions about Spartanlike

What does Spartanlike mean?
Spartanlike means resembling or characteristic of a Spartan.
What part of speech is Spartanlike?
Spartanlike is an adjective.

Words near Spartanlike in the dictionary

  1. Spartanization
  2. Spartanize
  3. Spartanized
  4. Spartanizes
  5. Spartanizing
  6. Spartanlike
  7. spartanly
  8. spartanness
  9. Spartans
  10. sparteine
  11. sparteines

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