Grecian
- Greek (especially with reference to ancient Greece)
proper noun
- a Greek
- one learned in the Greek language; a Greek scholar
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːʃn̩/
adj
Etymology: From Latin Graecia + -an. Compare Old French grecien and Middle English grecan, grecen, greken, grekin. By surface analysis, Greco- + -ian.
- Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).
“Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.”
“He was a young man with a scornful mouth and the bright blue eyes of a healthy baby set in a dark sensitive face. His hair was pitch black, damp and curly—the hair of a Grecian statue gone brunette.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin Graecia + -an. Compare Old French grecien and Middle English grecan, grecen, greken, grekin. By surface analysis, Greco- + -ian.
- A native or inhabitant of Greece.
- A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.
- A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
- One well versed in the Greek language; a scholar of Greek.
“I spoke of Mr. Harris, of Salisbury, as being a very learned man, and in particular an eminent Grecian.”
“[…] and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.”
- An Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.