Greek /ˈgrik/
 (a.)希臘的,希臘人的;希臘語的希臘人;希臘語 ;  (為桌面排版提供的一種字型,當螢幕無足夠空間容納所有文字時,可採用這種簡化字型)


 Greek a.  Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
 Greek calends. See under Greek calends in the vocabulary.
 Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church.
 Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross.
 Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire.
 Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. --Ure.
 Greek rose, the flower campion.


 Greek, n.
 1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
 2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang]
    Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek.   --Sat. Rev.
 3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. [Colloq.]

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 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").