(redirected from Language adjectives) -phone suff. 1. Sound: homophone. 2. Device that receives or emits sound: geophone. 3. Speaker of a language: Anglophone. [From Greek phōnē, sound, voice; see bhā- in Indo-European roots.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, ...
Greek The Greek mythology was filled with fascinating tales of gods and heroes. Grumpy The grumpy old man was always complaining about something. Gothic The gothic architecture of the cathedral was both eerie and beautiful. Gargantuan The gargantuan statue towered over the city skyline. Gigantic Th...
–A Greek statue of a raimentless Apollo is pre-eminently chaste. Rainless: lacking rain; dry. –Her eyes had the plain blue look of a rainless sky. Rainproof: not permitting the passage of water; waterproof; tight. –Maybe her finely cut outerwear — two beautiful navy coats with full...
IN THE SEVEN YEARS SINCE THE FALL OF THE COLONELS' dictatorship in Greece, a new Greek party has established firm political roots. With the accession of Greece to the European Community on 1 January 1981, the new parties have been brough... K Featherstone - 《Government & Opposition》 被引...
Regal Royal, notably excellent Related Words: Regalia: emblems and decorations of royalty Vagrant Roaming, wandering, or wayward Related Words: (Nomad)Nomadic: having no fixed home Itinerant: workers who travel from place to place Vehement Violent, passionate ...
I think that the army rank of “captain” or the equivalent dates all the way back to the Roman Empire, if not to the Ancient Greeks. I don’t know enough Latin or Greek to say any more. Mr. Nichol did not say anything about the naval rank of captain, which is quite different fr...
Ionian: of or relating to Ionia; Greek; Hellene. –Some of the Ionian dunes are over 30 meters high, the team estimates. Intractable: of a problem or a person very difficult to deal with; incurable; intransigent. –Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem. Incommunicado: without...
–Along the way, someone substituted the Latin ending pi for the Greek podes and came up with the polyglot octopi. Polygynous: having more than one wife at a time; polygamous. –Polygamous societies are almost always polygynous, where one husband has multiple wives. Polymeric: of or relatin...