"Hellenism" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Hellenism.wav Forms: Hellenisms [plural]
Etymology: Either via French hellénisme or Latin Hellēnismus or directly from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνισμός (Hellēnismós, “imitation of the Greeks”), from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “a Greek”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|hellénisme}} French hellénisme, {{der|en|la|Hellēnismus}} Latin Hellēnismus, {{der|en|grc|Ἑλληνισμός|t=imitation of the Greeks}} Ancient Greek Ἑλληνισμός (Hellēnismós, “imitation of the Greeks”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Hellenism (countable and uncountable, plural Hellenisms)
  1. Any of the characteristics of ancient Greek culture, civilization, principles and ideals, including humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. The national character or culture of Greece. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (national character or culture of Greece): kreikkalaisuus (Finnish), ελληνισμός (ellinismós) (Greek)
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  3. The culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  4. The culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period.
    The admiration for and adoption of ancient Greek culture, ideas and civilization.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (admiration for and adoption of Greek culture): hel·lenisme [masculine] (Catalan), hellenismi (Finnish), helenismo [masculine] (Galician), ელენიზმი (elenizmi) (Georgian), Heilléanachas [masculine] (Irish), helenismo [masculine] (Portuguese), helenismo [masculine] (Spanish)
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  5. A Greek idiom or turn of phrase. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Hellenism-en-noun-E6b~DRAs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Greek mythology, Paganism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 1 3 27 30 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 33 3 3 27 31 3 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 34 2 2 24 34 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 30 1 2 27 38 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 31 2 5 26 22 14 Disambiguation of Greek mythology: 29 1 2 28 38 2 Disambiguation of Paganism: 26 9 9 23 15 17
  6. The modern-day revival of the polytheistic religious system of Ancient Greece. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Hellenism-en-noun-LsVkjKje Categories (other): Terms with Portuguese translations, Paganism, Religion Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 31 2 5 26 22 14 Disambiguation of Paganism: 26 9 9 23 15 17 Disambiguation of Religion: 18 0 0 22 24 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (belief in and worship of Greek gods): kreikkalainen uskonto (english: ancient) (Finnish), hellenismi (neopagan) (Finnish) Translations (characteristics of ancient Greek culture): helénismus [masculine] (Czech), Hellenismus [masculine] (German), ελληνισμός (ellinismós) (Greek), יונות (Hebrew), Heilléanachas [masculine] (Irish), Gréagachas [masculine] (Irish) Translations (culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period): hel·lenisme [masculine] (Catalan), helénismus [masculine] (Czech), helenismo (Esperanto), hellenismi (Finnish), helenismo [masculine] (Galician), ელინიზმი (elinizmi) (Georgian), Hellenismus [masculine] (German), ελληνισμός (ellinismós) (Greek), эллинизм (éllinizm) (Kazakh), helenismo [masculine] (Portuguese), helenismo [masculine] (Spanish) Translations (modern religion): hellénisme (French), helenismo (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.