n.
- a native or national of Greece, or a person of Greek descent.
▸a Greek-speaking native of one of the ancient city states of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.
- the ancient or modern Indo-European language of Greece.
- US a member of a fraternity or sorority having a Greek-letter name.
adj.
relating to Greece, its people, or their language.
Phrase
- it's
(all)
Greek to me
informal I can't understand it at all.
Derivative
Etymology
OE Grēcas ‘the Greeks’, from L. Graeci, from Gk Graikoi, which according to Aristotle was the prehistoric name of the Hellenes.
