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adjectiveˈspɑːt(ə)nˈspɑrtn Showing or characterized by austerity or a lack of comfort or luxury. the accommodation was fairly spartan Example sentencesExamples - Schmidt is potentially a cold character, spartan with words and frugal with money.
- Between 3,000 and 5,000 years old, these trees are testimony to spartan living under harsh conditions.
- Use this spartan, but functional online viewer.
- The dining room, not exactly spartan but simpler than most of Starck's restaurant interiors, is high enough to afford fine westerly views upriver to the City and beyond.
- My room reminds me of some apartments I lived in as a much younger man: spartan, white-washed, built around the time my parents were teenagers.
- The interior of the shuttle was spartan in design - a comcen, which he glimpsed as they moved him into the back.
- The words spartan and bare did not even begin to describe the place Taro called home.
- Beeston never had palatial buildings, and throughout the C13 - C14 it remained a military base, spartan but potentially effective.
- Because it is such a spartan environment and lacks significant variation or detail, it lends itself readily to imaginative transformation.
- The two designs have sometimes been construed as representing a disconcerting shift from the spartan to the lavish.
- What lets it down is the over-egged direction which works against the spartan plot.
- It's a spartan, occasionally pretentious piece of work, but more than redeemed by two elegant central performances.
- It's a sparse, spartan film, especially in its Scottish scenes and has none of the warmth of Ramsay's engaging debut, Ratcatcher.
- The moon peers through the bare window with a spartan offering of light.
- The lack of decent furnishings gave the apartment a spartan look.
- The furnishing is spartan but includes an immense grandfather clock which strikes the hour with a shattering noise.
- Inside, he was relieved to discover, the ambience was not quite so discouragingly spartan as outside.
- Living conditions were harsh and spartan with many families living in humpies or tents.
- The bed, spartan nightstand, and two chairs seemed enough.
- My first impression that there was something disconcertingly spartan about the room was reinforced after a bit of tortured thought.
Synonyms austere, harsh, hard, frugal, stringent, rigorous, arduous, strict, stern, severe, rigid ascetic, abstemious, self-denying, hair-shirt bleak, joyless, grim, bare, stark, uncomfortable, simple, plain
Derivativesadverb Synonyms plainly, simply, austerely, without adornment, without frills, starkly, spartanly, monastically
OriginMid 17th century: from Spartan1, because the inhabitants of Sparta were traditionally held to be indifferent to comfort or luxury. A spartan place or lifestyle is one lacking comfort or luxury. The word is a tribute to the Spartans of ancient Greece, traditional foes of Athens, who left weak or sickly babies out on a cold mountain slope at night to die and forced all children to live in military ‘boarding schools’ from the age of about seven. Their terse speech also gave us the word laconic.
RhymesAkhenaten, Akhetaten, Aten, Barton, carton, Dumbarton, hearten, Parton, smarten, tartan noun ˈspɑːt(ə)nˈspɑrtn A citizen of Sparta. Example sentencesExamples - Athens was no longer the center of Hellenic civilization, having been defeated by the Spartans.
- Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved.
- The Spartans finally won through Lysander's abilities as a general and his friendship with Cyrus, the son of the Persian King, who financed the Spartan navy more regularly and fully than it had been.
- Although the Spartans extended their territory, they did not extend their citizenship.
- At the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War the Spartans slew any trader they caught sailing around their coast line, irrespective of their ethnicity.
- The Athenians were surprised by the Corinthians and Spartans, and the fleet was almost completely destroyed.
- The Spartans viewed themselves as the true inheritors of the Greek tradition.
- The Spartans were the Dorian inhabitants of a Greek city-state in the Peloponnese that for many centuries was one of the greatest of Greek powers.
- The Helots, and the Spartans ' severe treatment of them, at first puzzled and later disturbed the more sensitive Greek observers.
adjective ˈspɑːt(ə)nˈspɑrtn Relating to Sparta in ancient Greece. Example sentencesExamples - Let me therefore first expand a little on Greek, and especially Spartan, competitiveness, and then on Greek, and especially Spartan, attitudes to and practices of freedom.
- They were considered as mothers to all Spartan soldiers.
- The aim of their lessons is Spartan: the Tigers hope to turn the children into " committed freedom fighters, and upright leaders of tomorrow ".
- My jaw literally dropped as the girl started picking out books about ancient Spartan history - senior school work.
- First of all, training is to be Spartan.
- The tuition in obedience that I received as a boy was too severe, too Spartan to be imposed upon Athenians.
- Google Talk is Spartan in the way that the Lacedemonians were Spartan: it seems ancient!
- Of course, she is Spartan and your people rarely expose any weakness, even under the blade of a knife.
- To be Spartan meant to be tough.
- Jacomus drew his sword and plunged into battle with Spartan zeal.
- Thaddeus epitomized a Spartan athlete of ancient times, as did his older brother, Dmitri.
- What happened to Thebes is indeed a clear sign that it was Spartan rather than Persian interests that determined the nature of the King's Peace.
- When I started, cruisers always bragged about being tough and Spartan.
- A man in Spartan uniform stepped from the trees.
- There boys and girls alike competed naked, which got Spartan maidens the reputation for being rather fast.
- Though born lame in one leg, and displaying a streak of romanticism, Agesilaus was typically Spartan in his qualities and limitations.
- With the collapse of Spartan hegemony in 371, the fragmentation of Greece was such that it became harder to find allies than to hire troops.
- While Athenian forces made raids and even established small coastal bases in Spartan territory, these forays were unable to inflict sufficient damage to aid the Athenian fight.
- At first he danced a solid, Spartan dance, then a rather more fey Athenian dance.
- Tough and Spartan in his habits, he was also a keen rambler, and it was through the Ramblers Association that he met his companion Hazel Weatherhead.
- The military structure of Spartan society was shaped by the necessity of holding down the helot class that did all the actual work.
- On the other hand, Spartan isolationism appeared as a direct threat to Athens.
- Did you know that Spartan boys training to be officers in their army were partnered up with a full-grown male ‘mentor’, and essentially made to be his wife for ten years?
- The combination of this ideology, the education of Spartan males, and the disciplined maintenance of a standing army gave the Spartans much needed stability.
- Obviously, a democratic society or its subunits could decide to lead as Spartan an existence as they wanted.
- How can you claim to be Spartan if you can't keep up?
- It was a loving, if somewhat Spartan, upbringing.
- The first was during the Peloponnesian wars and was fought between a largely Spartan and Tegeate army, and a combined army consisting largely of Mantineians, Argives, and Athenians.
- The only concession to this classically Spartan regime is that each spectator may bring in one bottle of water - size is not specified.
- Those two aspects of Spartan culture and society by themselves make Sparta worthy of our continued study, but they far from exhaust Sparta's fascination.
- Throughout this ordeal he maintained a personal diary which records, in language of Spartan simplicity, the daily struggle against disease, cruelty, hopelessness, and death.
Synonyms painful, not comfortable, intolerable, unbearable, disagreeable, excruciating, agonizing, confining, cramped
nounˈspɑːt(ə)nˈspɑrtn A Canadian dessert apple of a variety with crisp white flesh and maroon-flushed yellow skin.
adjectiveˈspɑrtnˈspärtn Showing the indifference to comfort or luxury traditionally associated with ancient Sparta. spartan but adequate rooms Example sentencesExamples - My room reminds me of some apartments I lived in as a much younger man: spartan, white-washed, built around the time my parents were teenagers.
- Because it is such a spartan environment and lacks significant variation or detail, it lends itself readily to imaginative transformation.
- The bed, spartan nightstand, and two chairs seemed enough.
- The lack of decent furnishings gave the apartment a spartan look.
- My first impression that there was something disconcertingly spartan about the room was reinforced after a bit of tortured thought.
- Schmidt is potentially a cold character, spartan with words and frugal with money.
- It's a spartan, occasionally pretentious piece of work, but more than redeemed by two elegant central performances.
- Use this spartan, but functional online viewer.
- The dining room, not exactly spartan but simpler than most of Starck's restaurant interiors, is high enough to afford fine westerly views upriver to the City and beyond.
- The words spartan and bare did not even begin to describe the place Taro called home.
- The furnishing is spartan but includes an immense grandfather clock which strikes the hour with a shattering noise.
- Inside, he was relieved to discover, the ambience was not quite so discouragingly spartan as outside.
- It's a sparse, spartan film, especially in its Scottish scenes and has none of the warmth of Ramsay's engaging debut, Ratcatcher.
- The two designs have sometimes been construed as representing a disconcerting shift from the spartan to the lavish.
- The interior of the shuttle was spartan in design - a comcen, which he glimpsed as they moved him into the back.
- Beeston never had palatial buildings, and throughout the C13 - C14 it remained a military base, spartan but potentially effective.
- The moon peers through the bare window with a spartan offering of light.
- What lets it down is the over-egged direction which works against the spartan plot.
- Between 3,000 and 5,000 years old, these trees are testimony to spartan living under harsh conditions.
- Living conditions were harsh and spartan with many families living in humpies or tents.
Synonyms austere, harsh, hard, frugal, stringent, rigorous, arduous, strict, stern, severe, rigid
OriginMid 17th century: from Spartan, because the inhabitants of Sparta were traditionally held to be indifferent to comfort or luxury. nounˈspärtnˈspɑrtn A citizen of Sparta. Example sentencesExamples - The Spartans viewed themselves as the true inheritors of the Greek tradition.
- Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved.
- The Athenians were surprised by the Corinthians and Spartans, and the fleet was almost completely destroyed.
- The Helots, and the Spartans ' severe treatment of them, at first puzzled and later disturbed the more sensitive Greek observers.
- The Spartans finally won through Lysander's abilities as a general and his friendship with Cyrus, the son of the Persian King, who financed the Spartan navy more regularly and fully than it had been.
- At the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War the Spartans slew any trader they caught sailing around their coast line, irrespective of their ethnicity.
- The Spartans were the Dorian inhabitants of a Greek city-state in the Peloponnese that for many centuries was one of the greatest of Greek powers.
- Athens was no longer the center of Hellenic civilization, having been defeated by the Spartans.
- Although the Spartans extended their territory, they did not extend their citizenship.
adjectiveˈspärtnˈspɑrtn Relating to Sparta in ancient Greece. Example sentencesExamples - What happened to Thebes is indeed a clear sign that it was Spartan rather than Persian interests that determined the nature of the King's Peace.
- There boys and girls alike competed naked, which got Spartan maidens the reputation for being rather fast.
- While Athenian forces made raids and even established small coastal bases in Spartan territory, these forays were unable to inflict sufficient damage to aid the Athenian fight.
- Obviously, a democratic society or its subunits could decide to lead as Spartan an existence as they wanted.
- Of course, she is Spartan and your people rarely expose any weakness, even under the blade of a knife.
- Let me therefore first expand a little on Greek, and especially Spartan, competitiveness, and then on Greek, and especially Spartan, attitudes to and practices of freedom.
- Throughout this ordeal he maintained a personal diary which records, in language of Spartan simplicity, the daily struggle against disease, cruelty, hopelessness, and death.
- Google Talk is Spartan in the way that the Lacedemonians were Spartan: it seems ancient!
- My jaw literally dropped as the girl started picking out books about ancient Spartan history - senior school work.
- To be Spartan meant to be tough.
- When I started, cruisers always bragged about being tough and Spartan.
- First of all, training is to be Spartan.
- Thaddeus epitomized a Spartan athlete of ancient times, as did his older brother, Dmitri.
- The first was during the Peloponnesian wars and was fought between a largely Spartan and Tegeate army, and a combined army consisting largely of Mantineians, Argives, and Athenians.
- On the other hand, Spartan isolationism appeared as a direct threat to Athens.
- The only concession to this classically Spartan regime is that each spectator may bring in one bottle of water - size is not specified.
- The aim of their lessons is Spartan: the Tigers hope to turn the children into " committed freedom fighters, and upright leaders of tomorrow ".
- A man in Spartan uniform stepped from the trees.
- Did you know that Spartan boys training to be officers in their army were partnered up with a full-grown male ‘mentor’, and essentially made to be his wife for ten years?
- The tuition in obedience that I received as a boy was too severe, too Spartan to be imposed upon Athenians.
- Though born lame in one leg, and displaying a streak of romanticism, Agesilaus was typically Spartan in his qualities and limitations.
- How can you claim to be Spartan if you can't keep up?
- Tough and Spartan in his habits, he was also a keen rambler, and it was through the Ramblers Association that he met his companion Hazel Weatherhead.
- The military structure of Spartan society was shaped by the necessity of holding down the helot class that did all the actual work.
- Those two aspects of Spartan culture and society by themselves make Sparta worthy of our continued study, but they far from exhaust Sparta's fascination.
- With the collapse of Spartan hegemony in 371, the fragmentation of Greece was such that it became harder to find allies than to hire troops.
- It was a loving, if somewhat Spartan, upbringing.
- At first he danced a solid, Spartan dance, then a rather more fey Athenian dance.
- They were considered as mothers to all Spartan soldiers.
- The combination of this ideology, the education of Spartan males, and the disciplined maintenance of a standing army gave the Spartans much needed stability.
- Jacomus drew his sword and plunged into battle with Spartan zeal.
Synonyms painful, not comfortable, intolerable, unbearable, disagreeable, excruciating, agonizing, confining, cramped
nounˈspärtnˈspɑrtn A Canadian dessert apple of a variety with crisp white flesh and maroon-flushed yellow skin.
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