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An alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city
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metic
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metic \Met"ic\ (? or ?; 277), n. [Gr. ?, prop., changing one's abode; ?, indicating change + ? house, abode: cf. L. metoecus, F. m['e]t[`e]que.] (Gr. Antiq.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. --Mitford. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. In ancient Greek city-states, a resident alien who did not have citizen rights and who paid a tax for the right to live there.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"resident alien in an ancient Greek state," 1808, from Late Latin metycus , from Greek metoikos , literally "one who has changed his residence," from meta- "change" (see meta- ) + -oikos "dwelling," from oikein "to dwell" (see villa ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In ancient Greece , the term metic (Greek métoikos : from metá , indicating change, and oîkos "dwelling") referred to a foreign resident of Athens, one who did not have citizen rights in their Greek city-state ( polis ) of residence.
Usage examples of metic.
Tomorrow I would be one of the officials, seeing to it that no metic, including my half brother and my nephew, entered the sacred summit.
He had sent messengers into Delta and Epsilon Districts and summoned three Jewish elders and three Metic leaders to a conference.
Plus financial restitution for what this war will cost you, and a bonus for every Jewish or Metic man who actively fights for Caesar.
There is nothing wrong with metic marriages, and it would certainly make her father pleased.
There is nothing wrong with metic marriages , and it would certainly make her father pleased.
I remembered the resentment both of and by metics and foreigners at the tavern.
Behind the metics came the musicians, the old men with olive branches, the armed warriors in chariots, the cavalry, and finally the mass population of Athens, carrying gold and silver and ivory gifts for Athena.
The Alexandrian citizenship for all Jews and Metics who have lived in the city for more than three years.
The Jews and Metics proved doughty allies, marshaled soldiers of their own and turned all their small metal shops and foundries into armaments factories.
The skills of Alexandria repose with the Jews and Metics, and the latter will accept you because the Jews do.
But, after Caesar sailed away, the million Greeks of the city had insisted that if the Jews and Metics had the citizenship, they ought to have it too.
Cleopatra reneged on her promise and stripped the Jews and Metics of the Alexandrian citizenship while allowing the Greeks to keep it.
Greeks, Jews, Metics, hybrid Egyptians perished in roughly equal numbers.
So Cleopatra reneged on her promise and stripped the Jews and Metics of the Alexandrian citizenship while allowing the Greeks to keep it.
The freedom and material dynamism of the West are drawing millions to its shores - in the manner that Athens once attracted metics from Asia, and Rome drew Africans, Jews and Armenians.