Hellenisation is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hellenisation in a sentence
Hellenisation meaning
- The adoption of Greek manners and culture
- The act of causing a culture to become Greek
- The act of Hellenizing, making something Greek or Hellenistic in form or character, (cf. Latinize) such as by coining a word with Greek roots to express a concept that otherwise might be expressed in modern vernacular
Using Hellenisation
- The main meaning on this page is: The adoption of Greek manners and culture | The act of causing a culture to become Greek | The act of Hellenizing, making something Greek or Hellenistic in form or character, (cf. Latinize) such as by coining a word with Greek roots to express a concept that otherwise might be expressed in modern vernacular
Context around Hellenisation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 15 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hellenisation
- In this selection, "hellenisation" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 15 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, universal and full stand out and add context to how "hellenisation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include full hellenisation only took and of universal hellenisation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hellenisation" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hellenisation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Full Hellenisation only took place under Ptolemaic rule. (8 words)
Antiochus IV Epiphanes succeeded his older brother to the Seleucid throne and immediately adopted his father's previous policy of universal Hellenisation. (22 words)
Antiochus IV Epiphanes succeeded his older brother to the Seleucid throne and immediately adopted his father's previous policy of universal Hellenisation. (22 words)
Full Hellenisation only took place under Ptolemaic rule. (8 words)
Example sentences (2)
Antiochus IV Epiphanes succeeded his older brother to the Seleucid throne and immediately adopted his father's previous policy of universal Hellenisation.
Full Hellenisation only took place under Ptolemaic rule.