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Greek / grēk/ • adj. of or relating to Greece, its people, or their language. Compare with Hellenic.• n. 1. a native or national of modern Greece, or a person of Greek descent. ∎ a Greek-speaking person in the ancient world, typically a native of one of the city-states of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.2. the ancient or modern language of Greece, the only representative of the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family.3. a member of a fraternity or sorority having a Greek-letter name.PHRASES: it's (all) Greek to me inf. I can't understand it at all.DERIVATIVES: Greek·ness n.

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