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Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: * Greeks, an ethnic group. * Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. ** Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek. ** Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC). ** Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC. ** Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity. ** Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. ** Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD). * Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language. * Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church. * Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity. * Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD.


Other uses

* ''Greek'' (play), 1980 play by Steven Berkoff. * ''Greek'' (opera), 1988 opera by Mark-Antony Turnage, based on Steven Berkoff's play. * ''Greek'' (TV series) (also stylized ''GRΣΣK''), 2007 ABC Family channel's comedy-drama television series set at a fictitious college's fictional Greek system. *
Greeks (finance) In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivity of the price of derivatives such as options to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or portfolio of financial instruments is de ...
, quantities representing the sensitivity of the price of derivatives. *
Greeking Greeking is a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols, not always from the Greek alphabet. Greeking obscures portions of a work for the purpose of either emphasizing form over details or displaying placeholders for unavailable content. ...
, a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols in a computer display or typographic layout. * Greek-letter organizations (GLOs), social organizations for undergraduate students at North American colleges. * Greek Theatre (Los Angeles), a theatre located at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. * Greek Revival, an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. *
Greek love ''Greek love'' is a term originally used by classicists to describe the primarily homoerotic customs, practices, and attitudes of the ancient Greeks. It was frequently used as a euphemism for homosexuality and pederasty. The phrase is a produc ...
, a term referring variously to male bonding, homosexuality, pederasty and anal sex. *. The Greek, a fictional character on the HBO drama ''The Wire.'' * ''The Greeks'' (book), a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by HDF Kitto. * Greeks, a group of scholars in 16th-century England who were part of the Grammarians' War.


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Greeks (disambiguation) The Greeks are an ethnic group native to Greece. The term Greeks also has several inclusive meanings: * Ancient Greeks, Greek people of the ancient era * Byzantine Greeks, Greek people of the Byzantine era * Ottoman Greeks, Greek people of the Otto ...
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Greek dialects (disambiguation) Greek dialects may refer to: *Ancient Greek dialects *Varieties of Modern Greek The linguistic varieties of Modern Greek can be classified along two principal dimensions. First, there is a long tradition of sociolectal variation between the natu ...
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Hellenic (disambiguation) Hellenic is a synonym for Greek. It means either: *of or pertaining to the Hellenic Republic (modern Greece) or Greek people (Hellenes, el, Έλληνες) and culture *of or pertaining to ancient Greece, ancient Greek people, culture and civili ...
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Names of the Greeks The Greeks ( el, Έλληνες) have been identified by many ethnonyms. The most common native ethnonym is ''Hellen'' ( grc, Ἕλλην), pl. ''Hellenes'' (); the name ''Greeks'' ( la, Graeci) was used by the ancient Romans and gradually enter ...
, terms for the Greek people. *
Name of Greece The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks. The ancient and modern name of the country is ''Hellas'' or ''Hellada'' ( el, Ελλάς, Ελ ...
, names for the country. *
Greek to me That's Greek to me or it's (all) Greek to me is an idiom in English referring to an expression that is difficult to understand for the sayer. It is commonly a complex or imprecise verbal or written expression or diagram, often containing excessive ...
, an idiom for something not understandable. {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages