Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to all Greek peoples or a movement to unify them.
- adjective Of or relating to all Greek-letter fraternities and sororities.
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"I was president of my sorority" vs. "I was president of my sorority and acted as a liaison between our 50-plus members and schools officials, and served on the Pan-Hellenic Council which provided a unified voice for the six sororities and fraternities on campus."
Jenny Floren: Like a Needle in a Haystack - Employers and Gen Y Missing the Mark Jenny Floren 2010
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The new era of liberalisation was further consolidated in 1981 with the rise to power of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Party (PASOK/Panellinio Sosialistiko Komma), which made partial but important symbolic amends to this generation by reviving the Resistance legacy and restoring it to the record of national history.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Yet, I learned something more than math from her for she embodied Pan-Hellenic love.
Archive 2009-09-01 DNLee 2009
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Yet, I learned something more than math from her for she embodied Pan-Hellenic love.
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Our little blog item begins in 776 B.C., at the start of the Pan-Hellenic competition that pitted Greek athletes against one another at the neutral site of Olympia.
Jim Windolf: A Talk with Author Richard DeGrandpre About the Latest Demon Drug: Jim Windolf Windolf, Jim 2008
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When such a Pan-Hellenic meeting occurred, Mr. Cuyler rose to his highest triumphs.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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When Diarmait was installed on the throne, he summoned the convention of Uisnech -- one of the places where from time immemorial religious Pan-Iernean assemblies, resembling in character the Pan-Hellenic Olympic gatherings, had been held.
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The victor in the Pentathlon at one of the great Pan-Hellenic games (Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, or Nemean) or even in the local Attic contest at the Panathenæa is
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903
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At the same time, we must remember both that these Pan-Hellenic games presented the chief visible evidence of peace and sympathy among the numerous communities of Greece, and that in the time of Solon, factitious reward was still needful to encourage them.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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But how much would we not give for the delight of beholding it, -- for the joy of attending one festival in Corinth, or of witnessing the Pan-Hellenic games? ...
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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