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Athenian [uh-thee-nee-uh n] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- pertaining to Athens, Greece.
noun
- a native or citizen of Athens, Greece.
Origin of Athenian 1580–90; Latin Athēni(ēnsis) of Athens + -an; see -ensis Related formspro-A·the·ni·an, adjective, noun Examples from the Web for athenian Contemporary Examples of athenian
Athenian sports paper Sport Day topped their front page with “Bankrupt Them” on Friday morning.
Soccer Diplomacy: Merkel, Greece Near Critical Final Round on Debt
Barbie Latza Nadeau
June 22, 2012
The 28-year-old Athenian sex worker is feeling the effects of austerity in a different way than most are.
Prostitutes Are Scapegoated as HIV Panic Grips Athens
Barbie Latza Nadeau
June 17, 2012
Historical Examples of athenian
The Athenian slave laws were much more mild than modern codes.
Lydia Maria Child
The Athenian generals did not fail to take advantage of this negligence.
H. L. Havell
Neither would you approve of the delicacies, as they are thought, of Athenian confectionary?
Plato
And knowledge is not true opinion; for the Athenian dicasts have true opinion but not knowledge.
Plato
The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of Athenian history.
Plato
British Dictionary definitions for athenian Athenian noun
- a native or inhabitant of Athens
adjective
- of or relating to Athens
Word Origin and History for athenian Athenian n.
Old English Atheniense (plural noun), from Latin Atheniensis, from Athenae (see Athens).