half-Greek
- a word derived from Greek.
Example Sentences
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At 25, Sofia is a half-English, half-Greek anthropology student who works in a London cafe called the Coffee House but mostly tends to the petulant demands of her mother, Rose.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2016
Just behind them sat their guide, a thin and eager Levantine, half-Greek and half-Armenian, who, for some inscrutable reason, declared that his name was John.
From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe
The bull-like guffaw of Mike Sabota, the gorilla-built, half-Greek proprietor of the Amusement Parlor roared out above the ripple of laughter from the others.
From The Ramblin' Kid by Bowman, Earl Wayland
Basilides appears, like Philo Judaeus, who lived about the same period, to have been half-Greek, half- Jew, and to have belonged to the celebrated Platonic school of Alexandria.
From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius
These they found in the half-Greek, half-cosmopolitan culture which had there taken root and spread widely in the East.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
