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Panhellenism

Meaning of "Panhellenism" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PANHELLENISM

ˌpænˈhɛlɪˌnɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PANHELLENISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Panhellenism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PANHELLENISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Greek nationalism

Greek nationalism refers to the nationalism of Greeks and Greek culture. Greek nationalism became a major political movement beginning in the 1820s resulting in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. It became a potent movement in Greece shortly prior to, and during World War I under the leadership of nationalist figure Eleutherios Venizelos who pursued the Megali Idea and managed to expand Greece in the Balkan Wars and after World War I, briefly annexed the region of Izmir before it was retaken by Turkey. Today Greek nationalism remains important on the Greco-Turkish dispute over Cyprus.

Definition of Panhellenism in the English dictionary

The definition of Panhellenism in the dictionary is the principle of or support for the union of all Greeks or all Greece.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PANHELLENISM

alpinism · brominism · Calvinism · chauvinism · cretinism · Darwinism · determinism · diclinism · ecofeminism · feminism · Hellenism · hyperinsulinism · illuminism · indeterminism · Jainism · Leninism · Philistinism · Stalinism · strychninism · vulpinism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PANHELLENISM

Pangea · pangene · pangenesis · pangenetically · pangless · Pangloss · Panglossian · Pango Pango · pangolin · pangram · pangrammatist · panhandle · Panhandle State · panhandler · panharmonicon · Panhellenic · panhellenion · Panhellenist · Panhellenistic

WORDS THAT END LIKE PANHELLENISM

alienism · catechumenism · ecumenism · epicenism · eugenism · Galenism · gombeenism · heathenism · hoydenism · hyphenism · Jansenism · lichenism · mechanism · monogenism · phenomenism · philhellenism · phrenism · plenism · polygenism · tokenism

Synonyms and antonyms of Panhellenism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Panhellenism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PANHELLENISM

Find out the translation of Panhellenism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Panhellenism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Panhellenism» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

Panhellenism
1,325 millions of speakers
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Panhelenismo
570 millions of speakers
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English

Panhellenism
510 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
380 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
280 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
278 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
270 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
260 millions of speakers
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panhellénisme
220 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
190 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
180 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
130 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
85 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
85 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
80 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
75 millions of speakers
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पॅनहेलिनिझम
75 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
70 millions of speakers
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panellenismo
65 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
50 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
40 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
30 millions of speakers
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πανελληνισμό
15 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
14 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
10 millions of speakers
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Panhellenism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Panhellenism

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PANHELLENISM»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of Panhellenism
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Panhellenism».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Panhellenism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANHELLENISM»

Discover the use of Panhellenism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Panhellenism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Delphi and Olympia
Such scholarship led to the creation of categories of 'Delphian panhellenism' and 'Olympian panhellenism', each of which has been subsequently argued to be more 'la norme grecque'.36 Recent scholarship has thus felt uneasy with the ...
Michael Scott, 2014
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Panhellenism And the Barbarian in Archaic And Classical Greece
This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism.
Lynette Gail Mitchell, 2007
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Reading Homer: Film and Text
Film and Text Kostas Myrsiades. of usually delimited terms like ethnos and gaia to the Akhaians as a whole—strongly suggests that proto-Panhellenism had arisen by the eighth century b.c. Other evidence corroborates an eighth century date.
Kostas Myrsiades, 2009
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Ancient Greece and Rome
The term “Panhellenism” is a modern coinage encompassing two separate but related ancient concepts: the idea that the Greek city-states, although never politically unified, shared a common culture and language, and the concomitant ...
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Gorgias, Sophist and Artist
If he emphasizes the importance of the political dimension of Panhellenism, indicating that he conceives of the Panhellenic community as a federation in which cities live in harmony and resist external aggression, Gorgias also emphasizes the ...
Scott Porter Consigny, 2001
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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition
Yet Ephorus's Panhellenism seems to have been without a political connotation. Without a dynamic, unifying concept, he seems to have painted a portrait of human, although primarily Greek, life. Characteristically, his dedication to the wider ...
Ernst Breisach, 2008
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, ...
Panslavisrn is an idea that may exercise considerable influence overalarge population, but Greek pedants and enthusiasts can never make Panhellenism politically more than the shadow of a dream. Hellenism has a practical meaning, but ...
‎1870
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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Scholars frequently use the term “panhellenism” to refer to an ancient ideological position that developed in the fifth century and reached its full formulation in the fourth century. proponents of panhellenism held that the Greek city-states should  ...
Paul Christesen, Donald G. Kyle, 2013
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Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek ...
poems of Homer offered a framework for cultural convergence – which we call Panhellenism – that was based on language, religion, shared tales, and an aristocratic competitive ethos. Myths and heroic genealogies could then supply the ...
Anthony Kaldellis, 2008
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Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction
resentative and apostle of Panhellenism and, after realizing the impossibility of the Greek cities ever uniting, he pinned his hopes on Philip. But we should not draw hasty conclu- sions about the extent of Isocrates' influence; Philip was ...
Pierre Briant, 2012

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PANHELLENISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Panhellenism is used in the context of the following news items.
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My favourite history books 2013: Paul Cartledge
Globalisation, 'glocalisation', panhellenism, overseas settlement and trading networks, intercultural communication, Greek adoptions of ... «BBC History Magazine, Sep 13»
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The real ancient Olympic spirit: political, bawdy, and brutal
As for internationalism—or, in Greek terms, panhellenism—it counted for as little two and a half millennia ago as it does today. Ancient Greece ... «Boston Globe, May 12»
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Alexander the Great
... of Greece and the Orient synthesized and thrived as a side effect of Alexander's empire, becoming part of his legacy and spreading the spirit of Panhellenism. «Biography, Oct 11»
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The Divisions of Cyprus
But though it was decades since he had been on the island, he came from Cyprus and was committed to Panhellenism in its most blinkered ... «London Review of Books, Apr 08»
REFERENCE
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