Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Thrace or its people.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
- noun The Indo-European language of the ancient Thracians.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Thrace, a region in southeastern Europe (formerly a Roman province), included between the Balkans and the Ægean and Black Seas.
- noun An inhabitant or a native of Thrace.
- noun The language (any language) spoken in ancient Thrace. From the scanty remains of the Thracian dialects (chiefly proper names) it is inferred that they belonged to the Indo-European family.
- noun In geology, the uppermost stage of the Pliocene Tertiary series in the Vienna basin of Austria, represented by conglomerates, gravels, and sands containing bones of large mammals and shells of Unios and, in locally distributed freshwater limestones, the shells of Helix and Planorbis. The Thracian beds lie on the Congeria beds of the Lower Pliocene.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to Thrace or the Thracians or the extinct Thracian language.
- proper noun countable an inhabitant of
Thrace , regardless of ethnicity - proper noun countable an ethnic Thracian, regardless of geographical location
- proper noun uncountable the extinct language formerly spoken in Thrace.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Thrace or its people or culture
- noun an inhabitant of ancient Thrace
- noun a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages
Etymologies
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They say that in Thracian yog meant "thick" and urt meant "milk" and that's how the word yoghurt appeared.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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They say that in Thracian yog meant "thick" and urt meant "milk" and that's how the word yoghurt appeared.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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They say that in Thracian yog meant "thick" and urt meant "milk" and that's how the word yoghurt appeared.
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When Brasidas had thus spoken, he prepared to sally forth with his own division, and stationed the rest of his army with Clearidas at the so-called Thracian gate, that they might come out and support him, in accordance with his instructions.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The region here called the Thracian cities: Map 2.9, AY.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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The region here called the Thracian cities: Map 2.9, AY.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Hellespont, in what was called the Thracian Chersone'sus.
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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The Odeum, or music-room, which in its interior was full of seats and ranges of pillars, and outside had its roof made to slope and descend from one single point at the top, was constructed, we are told, in imitation of the king of Persia's Pavilion; this likewise by Pericles's order; which Cratinus again, in his comedy called The Thracian Women, made an occasion of raillery, --
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884
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Polymestor, and the paltry policy of Agamemnon, who, not daring himself to call the Thracian king to account, nevertheless beguiles him into the hands of the captive women.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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"Thracian," said Severus with astonishment, "art thou disposed to wrestle after thy race?"
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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