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Hellene

American  
[hel-een] / ˈhɛl in /

noun

  1. a Greek.


Hellene British  
/ hɛˈliːnɪən, ˈhɛliːn /

noun

  1. another name for a Greek

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Hellene

From the Greek word Héllēn

Example Sentences

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But they served an important purpose in establishing – after the first Greek edition in 1896 – that the Games were to be international, and not forever Hellene.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2024

Although he was Macedonian, he saw himself as a Hellene and often compared himself to the hero Achilles of the Iliad, from whom he claimed to be descended through his mother.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

One little Balkan boy stranded all alone, One little Hellene can do nothing on his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bronze athlete is the work of Costas Dimitriadis, famed Hellene.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Hellene would have thought of a city filled with Hymns to Intellectual Beauty, hymns to Athena, goddess of arts and wisdom, and to Apollo, the embodied idea of light.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

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