Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient region of east-central Greece around Athens. According to Greek legend, the four Attic tribes were unified into a single state by the Athenian king Theseus.
- A village of western New York east of Buffalo. The Attica Correctional Facility was the site of a large prison riot in 1971.
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- proper noun A
periphery whereAthens , the capital ofGreece , is located. - proper noun A peninsula southeast of
Athens ,Greece . - proper noun A town in
Indiana and inNew York State ,USA . - proper noun The Attica Correctional Facility, scene of the Attica Prison riots
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
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Examples
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Police in Attica, New York, came under criticism last year for pressuring two college students into becoming drug informants in exchange for working off traffic tickets.
Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010
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Threatening to put the Speaker of the Assembly in Attica prison may be a crowd pleaser in some towns, but then what happens in Albany?
Jerry Kremer: Carl Paladino: The Gift That Keeps on Giving Jerry Kremer 2010
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Threatening to put the Speaker of the Assembly in Attica prison may be a crowd pleaser in some towns, but then what happens in Albany?
Jerry Kremer: Carl Paladino: The Gift That Keeps on Giving Jerry Kremer 2010
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Police in Attica, New York, came under criticism last year for pressuring two college students into becoming drug informants in exchange for working off traffic tickets.
Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010
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Threatening to put the Speaker of the Assembly in Attica prison may be a crowd pleaser in some towns, but then what happens in Albany?
Jerry Kremer: Carl Paladino: The Gift That Keeps on Giving Jerry Kremer 2010
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After USA TODAY cited government data showing the air outside schools in Attica may be rife with toxic chemicals, Long said he pushed the district to monitor outside the schools.
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Our saga begins in Attica, the region around ancient Athens, where by the fifth century B.C. the adjective τέλειος or, more commonly, τέλεος meant complete, perfect or entire, and, more specifically in relation to animal victims of religious sacrifice or burnt offering: fully-grown, and/or without spot or blemish.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Slightly over five-feet-tall and soft-spoken, Mrs. Paladino, 63 years old, is a quiet contrast to a spouse who has described former governor George Pataki as a "degenerate idiot," said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver "belongs in Attica," and questioned Democratic rival Andrew Cuomo 's manhood.
Standing by Her Man Erica Orden 2010
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Wolff acknowledged the state has not monitored the air in Attica for toxic chemicals.
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Threatening to put the Speaker of the Assembly in Attica prison may be a crowd pleaser in some towns, but then what happens in Albany?
Jerry Kremer: Carl Paladino: The Gift That Keeps on Giving Jerry Kremer 2010
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