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evzone
English
Etymology
From Greek ??????? (évzonos), from Ancient Greek ??????? (eúz?nos, “girt for battle”), from ?? (eû, “well”) + ???? (z?n?, “girdle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??vz??n/
Noun
evzone (plural evzones or evzonoi or evzoni)
- A member of the Greek presidential guard.
- An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army.
- 1905, Burton Holmes, The Wonders of Thessaly, The Burton Holmes Lectures: The Olympian Games in Athens; Grecian Journeys; The Wonders of Thessaly, page 242,
- The soldiers seen at various stations belong to the corps of the Greek army that proved itself most effective in the recent war, the Evzonoi.
- 1953 April, Our Cover, The Rotarian, page 4,
- That's an evzone on our cover this month — and an evzone, as you probably know, is a Greek soldier of a certain kind. Recruited from mountain districts of Greece, the evzones make up rifle units in the Greek Army — but are better known to tourists as the skirted lads who make up the Royal Palace Guard.
- 1905, Burton Holmes, The Wonders of Thessaly, The Burton Holmes Lectures: The Olympian Games in Athens; Grecian Journeys; The Wonders of Thessaly, page 242,
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Further reading
- Evzones on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Noun
evzone m (plural evzones)
- evzone
evzone From the web:
enzone
English
Etymology
en- +? zone
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??n
Verb
enzone (third-person singular simple present enzones, present participle enzoning, simple past and past participle enzoned)
- (transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.
enzone From the web:
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