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Trojan

8.1

A person from the ancient city of Troy

noun
/ˈtroʊdʒən/

Literature

: troyano

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.

Examples

But his fate and that of his fellow Trojans was already sealed.
So let's turn our attention to the trojan war.

Class of 1999 (1990)
And this example has the two Trojan War heroes.
Helen, the wife of a Greek king, had vanished to Troy with Paris, a Trojan Prince.
In classical literature, Hector is often portrayed as a noble Trojan warrior.
The city of Troy was famously besieged by Greek forces during the Trojan War.
According to legend, a Trojan architect designed the famous wooden horse that led to Troy's downfall.

Synonyms

Dardanian

vsTrojan

Archaic

9.9

A person from ancient Troy often mentioned in old stories

means the same but differs only as an alternative historical name

Dardan

vsTrojan

Archaic

9.9

A person from the ancient city of Troy

is more associated with classical literature and literary usage

Compounds

Trojan horse

1 7.4

A person or thing that seems harmless but secretly causes harm

Trojan Horse

Specialized

1 4.7

Harmful software that pretends to be useful to make users install it so attackers can access and steal their data

Trojan Horse

Literature

4.7

A large hollow wooden horse that hides soldiers to let them enter the city of Troy secretly

trojan horse

Texting

6.1

A computer program that looks useful but hides harmful code

Surface Forms

Trojan singular

Trojans plural

Morphology

Trojan = Troy (transparent) = Troy + an

The demonym 'Trojan' is a regular and semantically clear formation from 'Troy' plus the suffix '-an'.

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.