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Definition of Trojan
1. Noun. A native of ancient Troy.
Group relationships: Ilion, Ilium, Troy
Generic synonyms: Asian, Asiatic
2. Adjective. Of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants. "Trojan cities"
3. Noun. A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful. "When he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse"
Definition of Trojan
1. a. Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
2. n. One who shows the pluck, endurance, determined energy, or the like, attributed to the defenders of Troy; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase like a Trojan; as, he endured the pain like a Trojan; he studies like a Trojan.
Definition of Trojan
1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Troy. ¹
2. Noun. A student (especially an athlete) of the University of Southern California. ¹
3. Noun. (space science) A Trojan asteroid. ¹
4. Noun. (space science) An object residing at a Trojan point. ¹
5. Noun. (programming) A very widespread and popular form of malware or computer virus. ¹
6. Adjective. Of, or relating to, the famed city of Troy or its inhabitants. ¹
7. Adjective. (space science) Of, or relating to, a Trojan point. ¹
8. Adjective. (programming) Of, or relating to, a certain type of malware. ¹
9. Noun. (computing) Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent. ¹
10. Adjective. (astronomy) Describing a satellite (moon or minor planet) that shares an orbit with another ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trojan
Literary usage of Trojan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"The Trojan War. The demise of Achilles follows shortly afterwards as a consequence of
... The Trojan War. King Thoas. We see that some of the tales about ..."
2. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1857)
"This fall of the royal houses occurs after the Trojan war, and many changes now
present themselves. The Peloponnesus was conquered by the ..."
3. History of English Poetry from the 12th to the Close of the 16th Century by Charles Dudley Warner, Thomas Warton, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... it to that poet [in this prefix : " Dares a Trojan ... expedition to Colchos,
the confiant prelude to the Trojan ftory in all the writers of this ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1858)
"But must event« which arc reckoned from the Trojan war, be reckoned from the
beginning or from the end of the war ? The Trojan war seems to have been the ..."
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