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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#m1)

2) Ancient Greece was the world of the ancient Greeks, famous for the Olympics, myths, democracy and great thinkers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#x1)
- The first Olympic Games were held in Greece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#x2)
- Greece has thousands of islands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#x3)
- Athens is the capital of Greece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#x4)
- My cousins went on holiday to Greece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#x5)
- The myths of Greece tell of Zeus and Athena. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#x6)
- Afterwards the two princes marched back to Greece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/12/)
- [The wise owl idea comes from ancient Greece, where the owl was the bird of Athena, the goddess of wisdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/14/)
- [Venice held a chain of ports and islands along the Adriatic and in Greece, including Crete and later Cyprus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/7/)
- [Greece is full of mountains and islands, so the Greeks lived in many separate city-states rather than one country.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/5/)
- [Early wheelbarrows are recorded in Han China and crossbows by the 5th century BC; ancient Greece had its own early forms of both.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «greece» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greece/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.