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Thracian

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Thra·cian  (thrshn)
adj.
Of or relating to Thrace or its people.
n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
2. The Indo-European language of the ancient Thracians.

Thracian [ˈθreɪʃɪən]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) a member of an ancient Indo-European people who lived in the SE corner of the Balkan Peninsula
2. (Historical Terms) the ancient language spoken by this people, belonging to the Thraco-Phrygian branch of the Indo-European family: extinct by the early Middle Ages
adj
(Historical Terms) of or relating to Thrace, its inhabitants, or the extinct Thracian language
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Thracian - an inhabitant of ancient Thrace
Thrace - an ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey
European - a native or inhabitant of Europe
2.Thracian - a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages
Thraco-Phrygian - an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian
Adj.1.Thracian - of or relating to Thrace or its people or culture


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Andromadas Regmus was also a lawgiver to the Thracian talcidians.
While fair Altisidora, who the sport Of cold Don Quixote's cruelty hath been, Returns to life, and in this magic court The dames in sables come to grace the scene, And while her matrons all in seemly sort My lady robes in baize and bombazine, Her beauty and her sorrows will I sing With defter quill than touched the Thracian string.
On your head above wear a shaped cap of felt to keep your ears from getting wet, for the dawn is chill when Boreas has once made his onslaught, and at dawn a fruitful mist is spread over the earth from starry heaven upon the fields of blessed men: it is drawn from the ever flowing rivers and is raised high above the earth by windstorm, and sometimes it turns to rain towards evening, and sometimes to wind when Thracian Boreas huddles the thick clouds.
 
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