Greek
      adj : of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks;
            "Greek mythology"; "a grecian robe" [syn: Grecian, Hellenic]
      n 1: the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
           [syn: Hellenic, Hellenic language]
      2: a native or inhabitant of Greece [syn: Hellene]


 Greek
    Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed
    between "Greek" and "Grecian" (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek
    by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as
    opposed to a Jew (Rom. 2:9, 10). The latter, meaning properly
    "one who speaks Greek," is a foreign Jew opposed to a home Jew
    who dwelt in Palestine.

      The word "Grecians" in Acts 11:20 should be "Greeks," denoting
    the heathen Greeks of that city, as rendered in the Revised
    Version according to the reading of the best manuscripts
    ("Hellenes").