Hellene
Americannoun
noun
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
Petrakis' John Doe is Leonidas Matsoukas, a beefy and ebullient Hellene who, like the author, is a member of Chicago's Greek-American community, locally known as the Bush.
From Time Magazine Archive
This "Hellene" on which he was to ride was about sixty-five feet in diameter and approximately three times that in length.
From Man of Many Minds by Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett)
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