Hellenic
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great.
non-Hellenic
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a word derived from
Hellenic.
Example Sentences
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Greece is running a $3 million U.S. video-and-print promotion that stars such non-Hellenic celebrities as Sally Struthers and E.G.
From Time Magazine Archive
In my knowledge of the non-Hellenic civilizations and the higher religions there are appalling gaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
We should at least know whether the dominant race in Crete in the Minoan age spoke an Hellenic or a non-Hellenic dialect.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
But surely we are not obliged to go so far, unless we are prepared to consider Charon non-Hellenic also; and no one can really pretend that.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
The scourgers faithfully performed their duty, at the same time gratuitously cursing the traitorous and rebellious Hellespont with what Herodotus calls "non-Hellenic and blasphemous terms."
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
