Definition of Panhellenic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to all the Greeks. "The Olympic Games were a Panhellenic celebration"

Exact synonyms: Pan-hellenic
Partainyms: Hellenism, Hellenism

Definition of Panhellenic

1. a. Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.

Definition of Panhellenic

1. Adjective. of or relating to all Greece or all the Greeks. ¹

2. Adjective. of or relating to the Greek-letter fraternities or sororities in American college and universities or to an association representing them. ¹

3. Adjective. (alternative form of Panhellenic) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Panhellenic

PanenTheist
PanenTheists
Paneth
Paneth's granular cells
Paneth cell
Panevezys
Pangaea
Pangasinan
Pangasinan province
Pangea
Pangloss
Panglossian
Pango Pango
Pangwa
Pangæa
Panhellenic (current term)
Panhellenist
Panhellenium
Panic
Panicum Texanum
Panicum capillare
Panicum miliaceum
Panicum virgatum
Panini
Panipat
Panislamism
Panjab
Panjabi
Panjabis
Pankaj

Literary usage of Panhellenic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"LYSIAS— WORKS '99 the foremost topic of speakers at the Panhellenic festivals. This topic had a special significance at the moment when the ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1883)
"A Panhellenic FESTIVAL OF TO-DAY. OF the many existing points of connection between old and new Greece one of the greatest is the love of the ..."

3. A Handbook of Greek Religion by Arthur Fairbanks (1910)
"Worship from the Standpoint of the State; Panhellenic Worship. — The different elements of worship, which have been described in the last four sections, ..."

4. The Cyclades, Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks by James Theodore Bent (1885)
"I. The Panhellenic Festival. INASMUCH as the festival of Tenos is one of the greatest events occurring in modern Greek life, and since we visited the island ..."

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