Athens
- Greek Athenai. a city in and the capital of Greece, in the SE part.
- Greater, a metropolitan area comprising the city of Athens, Piraeus, and several residential suburbs.
- a city in N Georgia.
- a city in S Ohio.
- a town in N Alabama.
- a town in S Tennessee.
- a town in E Texas.
- any city that is compared to Athens, especially as a cultural center: the Athens of the Midwest.
Greece
Examples from the Web for athens
Contemporary Examples
First, sortition was the main system for choosing political officials in ancient Athens.
Among these challengers is Olga Palagia, professor of archaeology at the University of Athens.
Mrs. Clooney has been followed around Athens during a three-day visit by a horde of paparazzi that number into the hundreds.
He roamed the streets of Athens asking people provocative questions that exposed uncomfortable contradictions in their beliefs.
And so one recent evening I pulled into Athens, Ga., the 10th stop on my 15-city, self-engineered, all-drive, no-fly book tour.
Dumps and Death Threats, Hecklers and Vindication: True Tales from Today’s DIY Book TourBill Morris
August 12, 2014
Historical Examples
"When we are in Athens, I will show you something more beautiful than these," said Pericles.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
Aspasia remained in Athens, triumphant over the laws of religion and morality.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
They were the last she heard sung by Paralus, the night Anaxagoras departed from Athens.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
You can even now return, if you will submit to be a mere sojourner in Athens.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
"Stranger, thou hast not yet learned the fashions of Athens," said Anaxagoras, gravely.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
Athens
- the capital of Greece, in the southeast near the Saronic Gulf: became capital after independence in 1834; ancient city-state, most powerful in the 5th century bc; contains the hill citadel of the Acropolis. Pop: 3 238 000 (2005 est)Greek name: Athinai (aˈθinɛ), Athina (aˈθina)
Greece
- a republic in SE Europe, occupying the S part of the Balkan Peninsula and many islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas; site of two of Europe's earliest civilizations (the Minoan and Mycenaean); in the classical era divided into many small independent city-states, the most important being Athens and Sparta; part of the Roman and Byzantine Empires; passed under Turkish rule in the late Middle Ages; became an independent kingdom in 1827; taken over by a military junta (1967–74); the monarchy was abolished in 1973; became a republic in 1975; a member of the European Union. Official language: Greek. Official religion: Eastern (Greek) Orthodox. Currency: euro. Capital: Athens. Pop: 10 772 967 (2013 est). Area: 131 944 sq km (50 944 sq miles)Modern Greek name: Ellás Related adjective: Hellenic
Word Origin and History for athens
Athens
city of ancient Attica, capital of modern Greece, from Greek Athenai (plural because the city had several distinct parts), traditionally derived from Athena, but probably assimilated from a lost name in a pre-Hellenic language.
Greece
c.1300, from Latin Graecia; named for its inhabitants; see Greek. Earlier in English was Greklond (c.1200). The Turkish name for the country, via Persian, is Yunanistan, literally "Land of the Ionians." Ionia also yielded the name for the country in Arabic and Hindi (Yunan).
Athens
A leading city of ancient Greece, famous for its learning, culture, and democratic institutions. The political power of Athens was sometimes quite limited, however, especially after its defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Pericles was a noted ruler of Athens. (See also under “World Geography.”)
Athens
Capital of Greece in east-central Greece on the plain of Attica, overlooking an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. Named after its patron goddess, Athena, Athens is Greece's largest city and its cultural, administrative, and economic center.
Note
Note
Note
Greece
Republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Athens (see also Athens).