Greek

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The word Greek may refer to:

• The Greek people
• The Greek language, or, more specifically, any of its historical forms:
  • Ancient Greek
  • Koine Greek
  • Medieval Greek
  • Modern Greek and its dialects (see Greek dialects)
• The Greek alphabet
• Anything related to Greece, its culture or history

• Greek, an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage
• Student Fraternities and sororities in North America (as in Greek Life)
• The Greeks, a concept in mathematical finance
• "Greeking", a practice of employing nonsense lorem ipsum placeholder text in publishing
• Something that is not understood, as in "That's Greek to me."
• A Greek gift is a deceptive one, referring to the Trojan Horse
  • In chess, accordingly, there is a Greek gift sacrifice
• in old-fashioned English, someone who cheated (at cards, for example) was derogatorily called a Greek

See also Hellenic, Hellenism, Helladic, Byzantine (disambiguation), Greco-Roman, Greco-Buddhism, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom