English word senses marked with topical category "Classical studies"

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Total 23 word senses

• Academicism (Noun) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
• Academy (Proper name) The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
• Academy (Proper name) The disciples of Plato.
• Academy (Proper name) Platonism.
• Homeric Greek (Noun) a dialect of Ancient Greek used by Homer in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns consisting primarily of the Ionian and Aeolic Greek dialects
• acacia (Noun) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
• academicism (Noun) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
• academy (Noun) The garden where Plato taught.
• academy (Noun) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
• classical studies (Noun) The study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, history, etc., sometimes inclusive of the study of the ancient Mediterranean generally.
• deletionist (Adjective) Favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious.
• dis legomenon (Noun) A word that occurs only twice in a given corpus.
• hapax legomenon (Noun) A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
• mia (Noun) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.
• novel (Noun) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
• smooth (Adjective) Lacking marked aspiration.
• tetrakis legomenon (Noun) A word occurring only four times in a given corpus.
• tris legomenon (Noun) A word occurring only three times in a given corpus.
• uncia (Noun) A bronze coin minted by the Roman Republic, 1/12 of an as.
• uncia (Noun) A Roman unit of land area, 1/12 of a jugerum.
• uncia (Noun) Synonym of ounce, the English and American avoirdupois unit of mass.
• uncia (Noun) Synonym of twelfth.
• xenia (Noun) The concept of hospitality to strangers.

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