Explore Greece through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like ellas. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Greece meaning
A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Hellenic Republic. Capital and largest city: Athens.
Synonyms of Greece
Using Greece
- The main meaning on this page is: A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Hellenic Republic. Capital and largest city: Athens.
- Useful related words include: hellenic republic, ellas, balkan country, balkan nation.
- In the example corpus, greece often appears in combinations such as: in greece, greece and, of greece.
Context around Greece
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Greece
- In this selection, "greece" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, church, lakeshore, visiting, placed, new and lakeshore stand out and add context to how "greece" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and praised greece s role, brick of greece placed first, athens greece and ancient greece. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "greece" sits close to words such as profits, assume and calm, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with greece
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gibraltar vs Greece: Greece have won their past two games against Gibraltar, scoring four goals in each game. (18 words)
Time for Greece to support Gen Haftar with more than words, if Turkey goes unchecked here Greece will be next. (20 words)
Turkey was also to hand over local land registers to Greece for the territories taken over by Greece after 1912 (Article 424). (22 words)
The second reason is that, although Greece is currently claiming up to 6 nautical miles of territorial waters in the Aegean, “Greece and its neighbours have not agreed on the demarcation of borders in areas where their legal maritime rights overlap. (41 words)
Greece is “formally” in the midst of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the country’s top infectious disease experts said, adding: “We can say that Greece has formally entered a second wave of the epidemic. (39 words)
Liam Brick, of Greece, placed first on parallel bars, horizontal bar and all-around, and second on still rings and vault in the junior Division 1 of men’s Level 5. Tyler Jackson, of Greece, placed second on vault. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Local churches such as Christ Community Church (Brockport), Hope Church (Greece), New Testament Christian Church (Greece), Lakeshore (Greece), and the Hamlin New Testament Church (Hamlin) have been hosting the Nicavangelists and helping provide support.
Blinken, who is visiting Greece for the first time under his current role, spoke of alliances created to support Ukraine and praised Greece’s role as one of the first to express its support.
But to assuage Greece – after the US renewed a military cooperation deal that will see a greater American military presence in the country – the Biden Administration wants to sell Greece 20 F-35s now and 20 more later.
Gibraltar vs Greece: Greece have won their past two games against Gibraltar, scoring four goals in each game.
Princess Anne, left, hugs Anne-Marie, wife of former king of Greece Constantine II during his funeral at the cemetery of the former summer residence of Greece's royals, in Athens.
Since then, 1,000 have moved to Greece but most of them are still there, despite the hard and dangerous conditions, the Embassy of Canada to Greece says in a Facebook post.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes statements with Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, on Dec. 7, 2023.
Gagas left behind his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stergis Gagas of Zaupanion, Greece, along with two brothers in Greece and his brother Cosmos, who had returned to fight in the Greek army.
Meanwhile, in Greece, there are fears that Iran or Iranian-backed terrorists target Israeli interests in the country after Greece’s National Intelligence Service received a warning from foreign security services.
The EDA gifts to Greece sweeten a larger arms package that includes 40 Lockheed F-35 stealth fighters, which Greece is buying for $8.6 billion.
Widespread in the rugged, rocky mountainsides of Greece, it occupies a special place in the history of Greece, which has a long history of employing natural remedies for a host of ailments.
EU foreign ministers said last week they were ready to take “all necessary measures” to stop illegal crossings into Greece, but Erdogan said the migrants would not stay in Greece once they had crossed.
Greece is “formally” in the midst of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the country’s top infectious disease experts said, adding: “We can say that Greece has formally entered a second wave of the epidemic.
The Greek government claimed that those attempting to cross into Greece were all single men and that none were Syrians, but families and Syrians did manage to reach Greece.
The second reason is that, although Greece is currently claiming up to 6 nautical miles of territorial waters in the Aegean, “Greece and its neighbours have not agreed on the demarcation of borders in areas where their legal maritime rights overlap.
Time for Greece to support Gen Haftar with more than words, if Turkey goes unchecked here Greece will be next.
Turkey was also to hand over local land registers to Greece for the territories taken over by Greece after 1912 (Article 424).
And then it helps us in the sense that there will be transfer of know-how from the States to Greece, and for the benefit of the armed forces of Greece.
Greece, along with Italy, had the lowest employment rate for women, at 31 percent, while women in Greece were also found to have poor access to financing.
Liam Brick, of Greece, placed first on parallel bars, horizontal bar and all-around, and second on still rings and vault in the junior Division 1 of men’s Level 5. Tyler Jackson, of Greece, placed second on vault.
Phrases with greece
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with greece
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in greece 42×
- greece and 24×
- of greece 22×
- to greece 20×
- greece has 13×
- athens greece 12×
- greece is 12×
- with greece 9×
- greece greece 8×
- and greece 8×