Definition of Klepht

1. Noun. (historical) An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire. ¹

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Definition of Klepht

1. a Greek guerrilla [n -S] : KLEPHTIC [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Klepht

klebelsbergite
klebsiella infections
klebsiella pneumonia
klebsiella pneumoniae
klebsiella rhinoscleromatis
klebsiellas
klecktoken
klecktokens
kleeblattschadel
kleemanite
kleenebok
kleenex
kleenexes
kleinite
kleinschmidt monolayer technique
klepht (current term)
klephtic
klephts
kleptarchies
kleptarchy
klepto
klepto-
kleptocracies
kleptocracy
kleptocrat
kleptocratic
kleptocrats
kleptomania
kleptomaniac

Literary usage of Klepht

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

1. New Folklore Researches: Greek Folk Poesy by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1896)
"One cries that it is gold he sees, another says 'tis silver; One little klepht has caught a glimpse, he knows what 'tis full rightly, ' That is no gold that ..."

2. Greek Folk-songs from the Turkish Provinces of Greece, Hē Doulē Hellas by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1885)
"Awaken, O my partridge-eyed ! Awake, and with me hasten ! And I will kiss the olive brown that on thy cheek's imprinted ! THE DEATH OF THE klepht. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Illinois State Library by Illinois State Library, James Alexander Rose (1903)
"... klepht and the warrior: sixty Edmonds, (Mrs.) 12°. NY 1892. Konow, Sten and Fischer, Karl, ed. Norway. years of peril and daring ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"1 one of them said ; " look at the little klepht! ... And he—he to call me a little klepht! But they would not listen when I told them of ..."

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