Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hellenistic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hellenistic \Hel`le*nis"tic\, Hellenistical \Hel`le*nis"tic*al\,
a. [Cf. F. Hell['e]nistique.]
Pertaining to the Hellenists.
{Hellenistic} {language, dialect, or idiom}, the Greek spoken
or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek
language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of
the Septuagint.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Hellenistic
adj : relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek
civilization [syn: {Hellenic}, {Hellenistic}, {Hellenistical}]
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