- 1古希臘的；希臘式的（多指古典風格，不是「現代希臘的」）
Grecian means from ancient Greece, or having a look that people think of as typical of ancient Greece — calm faces in old statues, a straight nose, white columns, loose flowing clothes. It is not the usual word for “from Greece today”. For a person or thing from the modern country, we say Greek. Grecian feels older and more like a word from books: a Grecian urn, a Grecian nose, a Grecian style of dress. You meet it in poems, in talk about art, and in slightly fancy descriptions. Though actually, what later Europe called “Grecian” is often a tidy picture of ancient Greece, cleaner than real life in those old cities. As a noun, “a Grecian” once meant a Greek person, but that now sounds old-fashioned.
組成From Latin Graecia (Greece) + -an (belonging to). Old French had grecien; Middle English had forms like grecan and greken. By the look of the modern English, Greco- + -ian does the same job.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Grecianadj/ˈɡɹiːʃn̩/
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obsoleteGreek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).
- Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.
- He was a young man with a scornful mouth and the bright blue eyes of a healthy baby set in a dark sensitive face. His hair was pitch black, damp and curly—the hair of a Grecian statue gone brunette.
Greciannoun/ˈɡɹiːʃn̩/
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obsoleteA native or inhabitant of Greece.
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A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.
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obsoleteA Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
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obsoleteOne well versed in the Greek language; a scholar of Greek.
- I spoke of Mr. Harris, of Salisbury, as being a very learned man, and in particular an eminent Grecian.
- […] and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.
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obsoleteslangAn Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。