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Definition: Athenian |
AthenianAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants. Noun1. A resident of Athens. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Athenian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Athenian |
| English words defined with "Athenian": Aegospotami, Aegospotamos, Alcibiades, Aristophanic, Aristotle ♦ Calippic ♦ Daedalus, Demosthenes, Draco, Draconic ♦ Gymnasiarch ♦ Homer A. Thompson, Homer Armstrong Thompson, Homer Thompson ♦ Ionic dialect, Isocrates ♦ Metonic, Miltiades ♦ Pericles, Plato, Prytanis, Psephism ♦ Quinquereme ♦ siege of Syracuse, Socrates, Syracuse ♦ Taxiarch, Themistocles, Thompson. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Athenian": Agnus-castus, Aristides, Athenian Bee ♦ Bees ♦ Damaris, Delias, Dying Sayings ♦ Hair, Hairs ♦ Iphicratensians ♦ Know Thyself ♦ Mars Hill, Metonic Calendar ♦ Pancaste, Pericles' Boast, Phryne ♦ Sandals of Theramenes, Seven Sages of Greece. (references) |
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Plutarch | Socrates . . . said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Parisian is among Frenchmen what the Athenian was among Greeks. |
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| "Athenian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.68% of the time. "Athenian" is used about 302 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.68% | 295 | 16,921 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.99% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 302 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Greece | Athenian Capital Holdings SA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "Athenian": athenian lady. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Athenian": athenian-led, athenian-style, athenian-supported, athenian-type. | |
Ending with "Athenian": anti-athenian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | Athener. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | athinas (attic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | آثيني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | атински, атинянин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 亚典人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Atheens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | atenano, atena. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ateenalainen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | athénien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | athenisch, athener. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αθηναϊκόσ, αθηναίοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | athéni ember, athéni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ateniese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Atheenagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athenianay ateniense. (various references) atenian. (various references) афинский. (various references) atinski, atinjanin. (various references) ateniense. (various references) atensk. (various references) atinalı, atina. (various references) người A-ten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | athenienses, atheniensibus, Atheniensis. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Athenian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ashanadan, Athenaion, Atheni, Athenion, Athenon, Athinio, bathonian, Othonial, Rathenraw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Athenian" (pronounced 'A*the"ni*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-i-n-n-t" | |
-2 letters: innate, taenia. | |
-3 letters: anent, antae, entia, henna, inane, neath, ninth, tenia, thane, thein, thine, tinea. | |
-4 letters: anna, anta, ante, anti, eath, etna, haen, haet, hant, hate, heat, hent, hint, naan, nana, neat, nine, nite, tain, thae, than, then, thin, tine. | |
-5 letters: aah, aha, ain, ait, ana, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eta, eth, hae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-i-n-n-t" | |
+2 letters: annihilate, cachinnate, lanthanide. | |
+3 letters: amaranthine, annihilated, annihilates, cachinnated, cachinnates, lanthanides, methanation. | |
+4 letters: anthranilate, ethanolamine, fountainhead, halogenating, halogenation, methanations, neurasthenia. | |
+5 letters: acetaminophen, anthranilates, anthraquinone, antihistamine, antimechanist, antiphonaries, ethanolamines, euthanatizing, fountainheads, halogenations, inhabitancies, mechanization, naphthylamine, neurasthenias, nonalphabetic, nontheatrical, rhadamanthine, uninhabitable. | |
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