Trojan
- noun
- /ˈtroʊdʒən/
- Literature
- In the Iliad, the Greeks and the Trojans prayed to the same gods.
And they'll think that I'm you and I'll fight and maybe we'll push these Trojans back.
- And they'll think that I'm you and I'll fight and maybe we'll push these Trojans back.
Examples
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But his fate and that of his fellow Trojans was already sealed.
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So let's turn our attention to the trojan war.
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And this example has the two Trojan War heroes.
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Helen, the wife of a Greek king, had vanished to Troy with Paris, a Trojan Prince.
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In classical literature, Hector is often portrayed as a noble Trojan warrior.
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The city of Troy was famously besieged by Greek forces during the Trojan War.
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According to legend, a Trojan architect designed the famous wooden horse that led to Troy's downfall.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Harmful software that pretends to be useful to make users install it so attackers can access and steal their data
- Literature
A large hollow wooden horse that hides soldiers to let them enter the city of Troy secretly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trojan comes from the ancient city Troy, so a Trojan was simply a person 'from Troy' who appears in the old Greek stories about the city's people and heroes.