Meanings
- uncountablethe act or process of Greekifying.
In 175 BC a powerful Jewish family, the Tobiads, seized power in Jerusalem, and began the Greekification of the city.
2014, Matthew Kneale, An Atheist's History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention, Catapult, →ISBN2 more examples
This Outline of Knowledge, later to be called a Table of Intents, later to be called a Table of Contents, finally to be named by Adler the Propaedia, a bogus Greekification that means something like before-knowledge, was to become the first principle of Plan B.
1974, The Atlantic MonthlyThe principal threat to the Bulgarian national identity in the 18th century has been Greekification, if the Ottomans had a policy of Turkification and Islam, why did the wealthy Bulgarians been more Greekified, more than being Turkified, was not it the Pope Paisi, the first inciter of Bulgarian nationalism, who had resisted Greek economic and cultural domination.
1995, Eurasian StudiesSynonyms: Hellenization
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act or process of Greekifying.
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Greekification
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Greekification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Greekification
“Greekification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Greekification. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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