Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable)A person from Greece or of Greek descent.

    The Greeks believed the sun went round the earth.

    Grieche, Griechin

    грекgrek, греча́нкаgrečánka

    грекhrek, греча́нкаhrečánka, греки́няhrekýnja

    a native or inhabitant of Greece

  2. (uncountable)Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.

  3. (colloquial, figuratively, uncountable)Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.

  4. (colloquial, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable)Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.

  5. (US, colloquial, countable, metonymically)A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.

    Was Joe a Greek in college?

  6. (slang, uncountable)Anal sex.

  7. (countable, in the plural, uncountable)One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.

  8. (archaic, countable, slang)A cunning rogue.

  9. (archaic, countable, slang)A merry fellow.

Examples

414 sentences
  1. That was all Greek to me.

    Для мене це була китайська грамота.

    ruДля меня это была китайская грамота.

    deDas waren böhmische Dörfer für mich.

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  2. This word comes from Greek.

    Це слово запозичене з грецької.

    ruЭто слово пришло из греческого языка.

    deDieses Wort stammt aus dem Griechischen.

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  3. It's all Greek to me.

    Це для мене китайська грамота.

    ruЭто для меня китайская грамота.

    deIch verstehe nur Bahnhof.

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  4. This is all Greek to me.

    ruВсё это для меня китайская грамота.

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  5. We studied Greek culture from various aspects.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person from Greece or of Greek descent:
Русский
By meaning 1
person from Greece or of Greek descent:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person from Greece or of Greek descent:

Origin

Inherited from Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic

Inherited from Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii.

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Forms

plural: Greeks

Synonyms

13 synonyms
gibberishlorem ipsumGrecianHelleneused for foreign speech or texttechnical jargonor advanced subjectsdummy placeholder text used in greekingGreeke
anal sex:anal sex
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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