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Definitions: Hellenic |
HellenicAdjective1. Characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures. 2. Relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization. 3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; "Greek mythology"; "a grecian robe". Noun1. The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Hellenic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Hellenic The common dialect of the Greek writers after the age of Alexander. It was based on the Attic. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Modern historians see the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC as dividing the Hellenic period from the Hellenistic. Alexander and the Macedonians conquered the eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and the Iranian plateau, and invaded India; his successors held on to the territory west of the Tigris for some time and controlled the eastern Mediterranean until the Roman Republic took control in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Most of the east was eventually overrun by the Parthians.
Following Alexander's death, there was a struggle for the succession, known as the wars of the Diadochi (Greek, "successors"). These ended in 281 BC with the establishment of three large territorial states:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hellenistic Greece."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| HEAT | English | Hellenic Arc and Trench | Engineering & Technology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HellenicSynonyms: Graeco-Roman (adj), Grecian (adj), Greco-Roman (adj), Hellenistic (adj), Hellenistical (adj), Greek (n), Hellenic language (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hellenic |
| English words defined with "Hellenic": developed ♦ Greek ♦ Hellenic language, Hellenic Republic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Hellenic": Hellenic Arc and Trench, Hellenists. (references) |
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 | Ceremony at the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, transferring the ships to the Royal Hellenic Navy. The transfer, which was made under the provisions of the U.S. Mutual Defense Assistance Program, took place on 15 January 1951. The ships served in the Greek Navy as, respectively, Leon and Panthir.Credit: NAVY. | | Ceremony at the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, transferring the ships to the Royal Hellenic Navy. The transfer, which was made under the provisions of the U.S. Mutual Defense Assistance Program, took place on 15 January 1951. The ships served in the Greek Navy as, respectively, Leon and Panthir.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Approaching the beach during a Royal Hellenic Navy amphibious operation, circa 1969. The stern of the LSM Ipopliarchos Tournas (L-162, formerly USS LSM-102) is visible at the extreme left.Credit: NAVY. | ||
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Business | Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) expanded its digital network (92 percent in 1999) and its revenues increased. (references) | |
Local banks, such as Hellenic Industrial Development Bank (ETVA), the state-owned development bank, some commercial banks, and the National Bank of Greece provide financing to interested companies for the purchase of EETE equipment. (references) | ||
A special exemption by the EU allowed Greece to delay privatization however this exemption will expire as of January 1, 2001. Value-added telecommunications services will no longer be under the state run monopoly, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE). (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | The quasi-governmental Hellenic Center for Investment (ELKE) is able to provide assistance in dealing with Greek government institutions. (references) |
Greece | All value-added telecommunications services including fixed telephony networks are no longer under the state run monopoly, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE). (references) | |
Greece | There are plans to reduce government holdings in the Public Power Corporation (DEH), the Hellenic Aerospace Industry (EAB), the Agricultural Bank of Greece and the port operations in Piraeus and Thessaloniki. (references) | |
Human Rights | Greece | Several complained that they were not shown the Hellenic Police Informational Bulletin, which contains prisoners' rights in a variety of languages, and that they were forced to sign blank documents later used for their deportation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hellenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.89% of the time. "Hellenic" is used about 90 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) | 98.89% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Greece | ELVAL Hellenic Aluminium Industry SA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Hellenic": Hellenic Arc and Trench ♦ hellenic language ♦ hellenic Republic ♦ pan hellenic. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Hellenic": pre-hellenic. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hellenic | 40 |
hellenic pan | 15 |
swan hellenic | 15 |
bank hellenic | 14 |
air force hellenic | 14 |
hellenic navy | 10 |
hellenic college | 10 |
hellenic radio | 9 |
festival hellenic | 9 |
army hellenic | 8 |
hellenic petroleum | 6 |
hellenic dating | 6 |
center hellenic | 5 |
hellenic line mediterranean | 5 |
hellenic republic | 4 |
hellenic single | 4 |
art hellenic | 4 |
hellenic rug | 4 |
festival.gr hellenic | 4 |
hellenic post | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Hellenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | Helleens (Hellenian), Grieks (Greek, Hellenian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | helenik, grek (grecian, greek, hellene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إغريقى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гръцки език (greek), гръцки (grecian, greek), елински. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 古希腊. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | helénský, klasická řeètina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Traktaten om Den hellenske Republiks tiltraedelse (Treaty concerning the accession of the Hellenic Republic), Traktat mellem Kongeriget Belgien,Kongeriget Danmark,Forbundsrepublikken Tyskland,Den Hellenske Republik,Kongeriget Spanien,Den Franske Republik,Irland,Den Italienske Republik,Storhertugdømmet Luxembourg,Kongeriget Nederlandene,Den Portugisiske Republik, (concerning the accession of the Kingdom of Norway, Corfu, Ireland, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Gran Duchy of Luxemburg, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland(Member States of the European Union)and the Kingdom of Norway, thhe Italian Republic, Treaty between the Kingdom of Belgium), graesk statsborger (Hellenic national), Graekenland (Greece, The Hellenic Republic), Grækenland (Greece, Hellenic Republic), GR (Greece, Hellenic Republic), Den Hellenske Republik (Greece, Hellenic Republic, The Hellenic Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Helleens (Hellenian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | helena (Helena, Hellenian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مربوطبه یونان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | helleeninen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hellénique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hellenisch (Hellenian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελληνικόσ (grecian, greek). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יו י (grecian, greek, hellenist), "ל י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hellén (grecian, hellene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | greco (grecian, greek), ellenico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Greagagh (Grecian, Greek, Hellene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellenichay heleno (hellenism), helênico, natural de grécia (greek), língua grega (greek), grego (Greece, Greek, green). (various references) elenic, elen (grecian, hellene, hellenian). (various references) эллинский. (various references) helenski, helen (hellene). (various references) helénico, de helénico. (various references) hellensk. (various references) เกี่ยวกับกรีกโบรา". (various references) yunanistana ait, yunan (grecian, greek). (various references) грецька мова (greek), грецький (grecian, greek), еллінський. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Hellenic": philhellenic. (additional references) | |
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"Hellenic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elenica, Elleniki, Ghellinck, Halkebi, Helenecca, helenic, Hellenica, Hellenikon, hellenis, Hellevik, Helonia, Hillevi, Hollevik, Mellerick, Zelenock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chenille. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: elenchi. | |
-2 letters: lichee, lichen, nellie. | |
-3 letters: celli, chiel, chile, chill, chine, cline, hence, leech, niche, niece. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cell, chin, cine, eche, elhi, heel, heil, hell, hill, inch, lech, lice, lich, lien, line, nice, nill. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, chi, eel, ell, hen, hic, hie, hin, ice, ich, ill, lee, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: chenilles. | |
+3 letters: chillnesses, clothesline, nucleophile. | |
+4 letters: chillinesses, clotheslined, clotheslines, melancholies, nucleophiles, philhellenic. | |
+5 letters: acetylcholine, candlelighted, candlelighter, chameleonlike, chancelleries, chancellories, childlessness, childlikeness, collieshangie, lichenologies, mischannelled, rechallenging, rechannelling, telencephalic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6C 6C 65 6E 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-.. .-.. . -. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e l l e n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006C 006C 0065 006E 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271787871807569 |
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