Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
oicos , 2.
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Examples
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His ugly word for love of the home, "oikophilia" - from the Greek word "oikos" - means the same as "eco-philia".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Louise Gray 2012
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His ugly word for love of the home, "oikophilia" - from the Greek word "oikos" - means the same as "eco-philia".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Louise Gray 2012
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Ecology and economy are both derived from the Greek word oikos - a house or dwelling.
Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk 2008
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Ecology and economy are both derived from the Greek word oikos - a house or dwelling.
Monbiot.com 2008
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That is the problem with Business School economists who really should be called "busi-nomists" rather than eco-nomists because by definition and by design they are not concerned with eco, a Greek word oikos, meaning "house".
Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas 2008
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Like the terms ecology and ecumenism, the word economy has the root oikos, which is a Greek word that translates as family or house.
Paul Raushenbush: The Religious Case for Moving Your Money Where Your Heart Is 2010
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The oikos is a somewhat longer troparion, which in concise style glorifies the virtues and merits of the subject of the feast.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Arthur Tansley, originator of the ecosystem concept, introduced the term ecotope in 1939, to give a more spatially-explicit defintion to the ecosystem concept by joining the term eco - (from the Greek "oikos" ; house, household) with - tope (Greek topos; place, locality).
Ecotope 2008
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The word ecocide comes from Greek as well, 'oikos', meaning 'house', and 'cidium', meaning to 'slay' or 'destroy'.
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'oikos' and 'nomos', which mean 'house' and 'law' respectively.
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