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Relating to Greek culture
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hellenistic
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Word definitions for hellenistic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hellenistic \Hel`le*nis"tic\, Hellenistical \Hel`le*nis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. Hell['e]nistique.] Pertaining to the Hellenists. Hellenistic language , Hellenistic dialect , or Hellenistic idiom , the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, "of or pertaining to Greece and its culture," from Hellen (see Hellenic ) + -istic . Since late 19c., specifically of Greek culture in the few centuries after Alexander.
Usage examples of hellenistic.
Pakistan, that the Buddha was first represented as a human figure, at which time Hellenistic influences in, perhaps, Gandhara, showed themselves in the folds of the drapery of the seated figure.
It had a certain aesthetic appeal, however, at least to someone who prefers the lean grace of early classical Greek sculptures such as the Discobolus to the muscle-bound athletes of the later Hellenistic period.
Hellenistic sculpture has popularised the scene of the immolation of a bull by Mithra, wearing a Phrygian cap, in one of those grottoes where the initiates gathered.