Definitions

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

  • noun An infantryman of a special corps of the Greek army.

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  • noun An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Modern Greek évzonos, from Greek euzōnos, well-girded, dressed for exercise : eu-, well; see eu– + zōnē, girdle.]

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From Greek εύζωνος (évzonos), from Ancient Greek εὔζωνος (euzōnos, "girt for battle"), from εὖ (eu, "well") + ζώνη (zōnē, "girdle").

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Examples

  • He saw Alekos, which was surprising enough, but he also saw a very tall fair-haired man dressed in the fustanella of an evzone.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • In a photograph taken of me on my tenth birthday — that, by simple calculation, had to be in the year 1955, in the time of Eisenhower — I, David Hanna Shaw, am standing alone on the summit of the Acropolis against the whiteness of the ruined Parthenon and the dazzling blue of Grecian sky, garbed in a flawless replica of the evzone military regalia.

    The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

  • I suddenly imagine myself dropping words like "quixotic" and "evzone" into e-mails and blogs just to up my score.

    Crave: The gadget blog 2009

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