Explore Hellenes through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hellenes meaning
plural of Hellene
Using Hellenes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Hellene
- In the example corpus, hellenes often appears in combinations such as: the hellenes, for hellenes.
Context around Hellenes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hellenes
- In this selection, "hellenes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, main, aboriginal, confederate, knew and self stand out and add context to how "hellenes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 653 for hellenes and all the hellenes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hellenes" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hellenes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And yet, all Hellenes knew which localities were Dorian, and which were not. (13 words)
Aristotle notes in his Meteorologica that the Hellenes were related to the Graikoi. (13 words)
The degree to which fifth-century Hellenes self-identified as "Ionian" or "Dorian" has itself been disputed. (17 words)
The other common names are Danaans (Δαναοί) and Argives (Ἀργεῖοι) while Panhellenes (Πανέλληνες) and Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) both appear only once in the Iliad; See Iliad, II.2.530 for "Panhellenes" and Iliad II.2.653 for "Hellenes". (37 words)
Nikos was on the board of the Coordinated Effort of Hellenes, the Pancyprian Association of America, and a strong supporter of many others, including the International Coordinating Committee Justice for Cyprus. (31 words)
Holland, pp. 307 309 Themistocles sent a servant, Sicinnus, to Xerxes, with a message proclaiming that Themistocles was "on king's side and prefers that your affairs prevail, not the Hellenes". (31 words)
Example sentences (15)
The other common names are Danaans (Δαναοί) and Argives (Ἀργεῖοι) while Panhellenes (Πανέλληνες) and Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) both appear only once in the Iliad; See Iliad, II.2.530 for "Panhellenes" and Iliad II.2.653 for "Hellenes".
Ἕλληνες main Hellenes) both appear only once ; See Iliad, II.2.530 for "Panhellenes" and Iliad II.2.653 for "Hellenes".
Nikos was on the board of the Coordinated Effort of Hellenes, the Pancyprian Association of America, and a strong supporter of many others, including the International Coordinating Committee Justice for Cyprus.
On August 26 1071 – remembered forever by Hellenes as “that terrible day” –Romanus lost track of where Alp Arslan was, and the Byzantines suffered a crushing defeat.
Peter Stavrianidis, PhD, spoke about the 3,000 year history of the Hellenes of Asia Minor and the Hellenic Genocide.
Alexandra spent the spring of 1877 in Greece recuperating from a period of ill health and visiting her brother King George of the Hellenes.
And yet, all Hellenes knew which localities were Dorian, and which were not.
Aristotle notes in his Meteorologica that the Hellenes were related to the Graikoi.
Dorian women had a distinctive dress, a tunic (plain dress) not needing to be pinned with brooches, which was once common to all the Hellenes.
Holland, pp. 307 309 Themistocles sent a servant, Sicinnus, to Xerxes, with a message proclaiming that Themistocles was "on king's side and prefers that your affairs prevail, not the Hellenes".
I suspect that the sun, moon, earth, stars, and heaven, which are still the Gods of many barbarians, were the only Gods known to the aboriginal Hellenes.
So Themistocles told Aristides that his purpose was to burn the naval station of the confederate Hellenes, for that in this way the Athenians would be greatest, and lords of all.
The degree to which fifth-century Hellenes self-identified as "Ionian" or "Dorian" has itself been disputed.
The Hellenes are not able to hold out against you for a long time, but you will scatter them, and they will each flee to their own cities.
To arrive at this conclusion, Hall relies on Herodotus' version of the myth (see below) that the Hellenes under Dorus did not take his name until reaching the Peloponnesus.
Common combinations with hellenes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: