Greek
adjective
of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
Greekish
-
a word derived from
Greek.
Example Sentences
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Compared with their Greekish forebears, they are far trickier affairs.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2012
Poet Jeffers has already shown how, against the desert western American landscape, the characters of his imagination, impelled by Greekish lusts, drizzle themselves away.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only 41 cases could he locate, so he decided it was a rarity, gave it a Greekish name, tetrapodisis.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the new main entrance from the high road beyond the town, through lofty Greekish gates, came the lords and lairds, in yellow coaches, gigs, and post chaises.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
The Iland is but small, not aboue five miles in compasse: the chiefe thing it yeeldeth is corn: it hath a port for shipping, and in it is a monastery of Greekish Caloieros.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
