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US
/ˈætɪk/
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[ UK /ˈætɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˈætɪk/ ]
NOUN
- the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times
Attic Greek
How To Use Attic In A Sentence
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations
- _Attico genere dicendi se gaudere dicunt; atqui utinam imitarentur nec ossa solum, sed etiam et sanguinem. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
- Along the rural lanes beyond Arambol, old farmhouses are enclosed in latticed palm shade.
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics.
- It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
- The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg. Down and Out in Paris and London
- The pest control officer put bowls of rat poison in the attic.
- We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.