greece

«greece» in Mova's school dictionary: a country in south-east Europe, by the Mediterranean Sea… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (Greece — proper noun, a country)

meaning for a pupil

1) Greece is a country in south-east Europe, by the Mediterranean Sea, with many islands; its capital is Athens. tree →

2) Ancient Greece was the world of the ancient Greeks, famous for the Olympics, myths, democracy and great thinkers. tree →

sense in the lessons

History lessons (Ancient Greece, the Olympics, gods and myths), geography (islands, the Mediterranean), food and holidays.

examples

• We are learning about Ancient Greece this term. tree →
• The first Olympic Games were held in Greece. tree →
• Greece has thousands of islands. tree →
• Athens is the capital of Greece. tree →
• My cousins went on holiday to Greece. tree →
• The myths of Greece tell of Zeus and Athena. tree →
• Afterwards the two princes marched back to Greece. tree →

note

Always with a capital G. Adjective and people: Greek, the Greeks. Language: Greek. Do not confuse with «grease» (fat, oil), which sounds the same.

In the corpora

• In Aesop's fable from ancient Greece, about 2500 years ago, a little mouse saves a lion by gnawing through a net.
• The wise owl idea comes from ancient Greece, where the owl was the bird of Athena, the goddess of wisdom.
• Venice held a chain of ports and islands along the Adriatic and in Greece, including Crete and later Cyprus.
• Greece is full of mountains and islands, so the Greeks lived in many separate city-states rather than one country.
• Early wheelbarrows are recorded in Han China and crossbows by the 5th century BC; ancient Greece had its own early forms of both.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «greece» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.