Greekland

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proper noun

The land of the Greeks; Greece: A country in Southeastern Europe

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun
  1. nonstandardrareThe land of the Greeks; Greece: A country in Southeastern Europe

    Atheling to the heaven-king. Shepherd of Greekland Harrower of Annwn.

    2002, John Matthews, At the Table of the Grail
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    Once on a time fared he in a ship to Greekland, for that there was a king's daughter on whom he had set his mind, […]

    1842, The Prose Or Younger Edda

    Scores of the old rune-stones speak of the Warings and Captains and Shipmen (and perhaps, now and then, Merchants or Pilgrims going to or from the Holy Land) who served "in Greece", "in Greekland", who "gained wealth in Greece", who "died in Greekland", who were mere "Greek farers", visited "Greek Havens" &c. in the 10th, 11th, 12th centuries.

    1884, George Stephens, The Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England

    They speak about men who perished on Viking expeditions to faraway countries — westward to England, most especially eastward to Gardarike (the present Russia), to Greekland (the lands comprising the Byzantine Empire), to Sarkland (the Mohammedan countries about the Black Sea), to Jorsalaland (Jerusalem), to Langbardaland (the present Italy).

    1933, Henry Goddard Leach, The American-Scandinavian Review, volume 21, page 216

    Nowhere do we find that 'Epirus' means Greekland. If 'Epirus' could thus most conveniently be stretched to mean Greekland, then the world would forever be faced with a chaotic situation.

    1968, Nelo Drizari, Scanderbeg

    She was a prize. She was Jaederborn, but her mother had been captured in Greekland.

    2000, Lars Walker, The Year of the Warrior

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Old EnglishGrēcland“Greece”
  2. Middle EnglishGreclond
  3. EnglishGreekland

From Middle English Greclond, Griclond, Griccland, from Old English Grēcland (“Greece”), equivalent to Greek + -land. Compare West Frisian Grikelân (“Greece”), Dutch Griekenland (“Greece”), German Griechenland (“Greece”), Danish Grækenland (“Greece”), Norwegian Bokmål Grekenland (“Greece”) (archaic, replaced by “Hellas”), Norwegian Nynorsk Grekland (“Greece”) (archaic, replaced by “Hellas”), Swedish Grekland (“Greece”), Icelandic Grikkland (“Greece”).

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APA

Greekland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Greekland

MLA

“Greekland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Greekland. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Greekland,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Greekland.

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