/ griːk; NAmE / noun
1.
[ C ] a person from modern or ancient Greece
2.
[ U ] the language of modern or ancient Greece
3.
[ C ] ( NAmE ) a member of a fraternity or a sorority at a college or university
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IDIOMS
- it's all Greek to me
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English Grēcas the Greeks , from Latin Graeci (the name given by the Romans to the people who called themselves the Hellenes), from Greek Graikoi , which according to Aristotle was the prehistoric name of the Hellenes.