ANCIENT GREEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ancient Greek mean? 

• ANCIENT GREEK (noun)
  The noun ANCIENT GREEK has 1 sense:

1. the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire

  Familiarity information: ANCIENT GREEK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANCIENT GREEK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Greek language prior to the Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Ancient Greek" is a kind of...):

Greek; Hellenic; Hellenic language (the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Ancient Greek"):

Attic; Classical Greek; Ionic; Ionic dialect (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia)

Aeolic; Aeolic dialect; Eolic (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis)

Arcadic; Arcadic dialect (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians)

Doric; Doric dialect (the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris)

 Context examples 

Ancient Greek astrologers (from the Hellenistic period) wrote that Saturn was in its joy in the twelfth house—a superb place to host Saturn because your concentration would be so superbly strong, and you would be highly productive.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)