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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to both Greece and Rome.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to both Greece and Rome, as the Latin civilization after it had become modified by contact with the higher civilization of Greece, and specifically the art cultivated under Roman domination, almost exclusively by Greek artists.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Greek or Roman culture.
  • adjective wrestling Describing Greco-Roman wrestling, a form of wrestling where fighters may only attack above the waist.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures

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