Definition of Thracian

1. Noun. An inhabitant of ancient Thrace.

Group relationships: Thrace
Generic synonyms: European

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Thrace or its people or culture.
Partainyms: Thrace

3. Noun. A Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages.
Generic synonyms: Thraco-phrygian

Definition of Thracian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.

Definition of Thracian

1. Adjective. of or pertaining to Thrace or the Thracians or the extinct Thracian language. ¹

2. Proper noun. an inhabitant of Thrace, regardless of ethnicity ¹

3. Proper noun. an ethnic Thracian, regardless of geographical location ¹

4. Proper noun. the extinct language formerly spoken in Thrace. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thracian

Thornton Wilder
Thornwaldt
Thoroughbred
Thorpe
Thorshavn
Thorstein Bunde Veblen
Thorstein Veblen
Thos.
Thoth
Thotlavalluru
Thousand Island dressing
Thousand Oaks
Thousand and One Nights
Thr
Thrace
Thracian (current term)
Thracians
Thraco-Phrygian
Thraupidae
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Threadneedle Street
Three Kings' Day
Threeness
Threskiornis
Threskiornis aethiopica
Threskiornithidae
Thriambus
Thrinax
Thrinax keyensis
Thrinax microcarpa

Literary usage of Thracian

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

1. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1841)
"Of the Thracian Race. Herodotus declares that the Thracians were the most numerous race of people in the world next to the Indians. ..."

2. The Olynthiac, and Other Public Orations of Demosthenes by Demosthenes (1852)
"THE Thracian CHERSONESE. THE peninsula known anciently by the name of the Thracian v Chersonese is washed on its eastern coast by the Hellespont, ..."

3. Primitive Traditional History: The Primitive History and Chronology of India by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1907)
"JUU Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. XXVI., Part //., Nov., 1906, PP- W f- THE HISTORY THEREIN TOLD. THE evidence given in this description of the Thracian ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... Stirs all the ranks, and fires the Trojan train; Inform like Acamas, the Thracian guide, Enrag'd, to Troy's retiring chiefs he cry'd: How long, ..."

5. Bibliotheca Classica: Or, A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms by John Lemprière, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte, John David Ogilby (1866)
"It was bounded on the north by the Euxine and the Thracian Bosphorus, on the east by ... a Thracian people, who dwelt upon its shores and ruled over the ..."

6. The Olynthiac, and Other Public Orations of Demosthenes by Demosthenes (1852)
"... which was named after him Lysimachia.3 During the reign of Philip the Thracian Chersonese gave birth to one great man—Eumenes of Cardia—concerning whom ..."

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