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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Greek/ɡriːk/

▶noun

1 a native or national of Greece, or a person of Greek descent.
■ a Greek-speaking native of one of the ancient city states of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.

2 the ancient or modern Indo-European language of Greece.

3 US a member of a fraternity or sorority having a Greek-letter name.

▶adjective relating to Greece, its people, or their language.

– phrases
it's (all) Greek to me informal I can't understand it at all.

– derivatives
Greekness noun.

– origin OE Grēcas ‘the Greeks’, from L. Graeci, from Gk Graikoi, which according to Aristotle was the prehistoric name of the Hellenes.

'Greek' also found in these Oxford entries:

-a - Achaean - Achilles heel - acropolis - Adonis - adytum - -ae - aeolian - agave - -al - alcaic - alpha - alphabet - ambrosia - amphora - andromeda - antistrophe - aorist - apollo - Apollonian - Archimedean - areology - Argive - Aristotelian - arsis - artemisia - atlas - Attic - Atticism - bacchanal - barbarian - barbarism - beta - black-figure - bouzouki - breathing - caduceus - caesura - Cassandra - catamite - cathedral - centaur - chi - chimera - chi-rho - chorus - chryselephantine - classic - classical - classicism

Forum discussions with the word(s) "Greek" in the title:

"It's all Greek to me." in the U.S.
a Greek word that meant "a measure"/ a "measure"
a variety of Greek food <for, on, with, at> a reasonable price
as a majority of Greek voters effectively demanded by backing parties that wanted revisions to those terms
debauching her way to the Greek
Greek / Grecian
Greek letter pronunciation
Greek Life?
Greek Prefixes
how the Greek government's deficit would still be too large
I can't do the Greek letters.
I didn't learn much Greek <as, since, while, during> I was in Crete.
I have no ambition into teaching Greek
Looking for greek phrase
My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Opposite?
plural of nationalities: the Greek vs. the Greeks
throughout even older Egytian and Greek texts
What might have ancient Greek adventurers thought?

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