Spartan

Definition: Spartan

Spartan

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people.

2. Resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage".

3. Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing".

4. Practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence".

Noun

1. A resident of Sparta.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Spartan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Etymology: Spartan \Spar"tan\, adjective. [Latin expression Spartanus.]. (Websters 1913)

SPARTAN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Spartan

Severity

Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.

Crosswords: Spartan

Albanian (spartan), Romanian (lacedaemonian, spartan), Swedish (spartan).

A Spartan Mother (1912)

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References

• Spartan Motors, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Spartan Stores, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Magic Moments: A Century of Spartan Basketball (reference)

• Morningstar Mutual Fund Report: Fidelity Spartan CA Municipal Income [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Pharnabazus Sits on the Ground with the Spartan Captains (reference)

• Spartan (reference)

• Spartan Football: 100 Seasons of Gridiron Glory (reference)

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Periodicals

• Spartan (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Spartan Conquest (reference)

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Music

• Spartan [IMPORT] (reference)

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High Tech

• Western Digital Retail Pkg 10.2GB Spartan Eide 5400Rpm Ultra-Ata/66 Cmd Only (reference)

• Western Digital Spartan 13.6 GB Hard Disk Drive (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Swiss Army Spartan with Compass Carabiner (reference)

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Trouble in the Spartan ranks. Old Durham in the field. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Enjolras, we know, had something of the Spartan and of the Puritan.

A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful.

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Children

China

However, conditions in some other orphanages appear to be adequate, if Spartan. (references)

Human Rights

Brunei

Remand cells at police stations are Spartan. (references)

Seychelles

Conditions at the Long Island prison, the only such facility in the country, remained Spartan. (references)

Travel

New Zealand

Hotel accommodation can be spartan in rural regions, but upscale and mid-range accommodations are readily available in the metropolitan areas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "Spartan": spartan strict. Additional references.

Beginning with "Spartan": spartan-led, spartan-sounding.

Ending with "Spartan": anti-spartan.

Albanian

spartan. (various references)

Arabic 

‏إسبارطي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

смелчага (bulldog, daredevil, desperado, hearty), спартански, спартанец. (various references)

Chinese 

斯巴达. (various references)

Dutch

Spartaans, Spartaan. (various references)

Esperanto

spartano, sparta. (various references)

Farsi 

اسپارتی , ادم دلیروباانضباط, بی تجمل . (various references)

French

spartiate. (various references)

German

spartanisch, spartaner. (various references)

Greek 

σπαρτιάτησ, σπαρτιατικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian

spártai (austere, lacedaemonian). (various references)

Italian

spartano. (various references)

Korean 

스파르타. (various references)

Manx

Spartagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

artanspay

Portuguese

espartano. (various references)

Romanian

spartan (lacedaemonian). (various references)

Russian 

спартанский (lacedaemonian), спартанец (lacedaemonian). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spartanski (lacedaemonian), spartanac (lacedaemonian). (various references)

Spanish

espartano. (various references)

Swedish

spartansk (austere), spartan. (various references)

Turkish

spartalı, sparta, sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), yiğit (brave, bulldog, courageous, dare devil, daredevil, Doughty, gallant, game, hero, manful, manly, plucky, red blooded, redoubtable, spunky, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous), cesur kimse (dare devil, lion), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous). (various references)

Ukrainian

стриманий (abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, continent, coy, demure, discreet, dry, guarded, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), спартанський. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người Xpác-tơ người có những đức tính như người Xpác-tơ, khắc khổ (astringent), có ý thức kỷ luật cao, bền bỉ (dogged, tireless), anh dũng (game). (various references)

Misspellings

"Spartan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isparta, Partan, Sarnat, Sartan, Sarton, Scarton, Shaitan, shatran, sparten. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: partans, tarpans, trapans.

-1 letter: partan, ratans, satrap, tarpan, trapan.

-2 letters: antas, antra, apart, ataps, pants, paras, parts, pasta, prats, rants, ratan, saran, sprat, strap, tapas, tarns, tarps, trans, traps.

-3 letters: anas, ansa, anta, ants, arts, atap, naps, pans, pant, para, pars, part, past, pats, prat, rant, raps, rapt, rasp, rats, snap, span, spar, spat, star, tans, tapa.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: aspirant, cantraps, mantraps, partisan.

+2 letters: apartness, aspirants, cantraips, catnapers, paraments, partisans, partizans, peasantry, rataplans, straphang, tragopans.

+3 letters: anastrophe, anatropous, apartments, appertains, asperating, aspirating, aspiration, bipartisan, catnappers, mercaptans, paramounts, parathions, parentages, partisanly, patricians, patronages, pentagrams, pleasanter, pleasantry, ptarmigans, separating, separation, straphangs, tarpaulins, transeptal, transplant, transpolar, transshape, unpastoral.

+4 letters: absorptance, anastrophes, antiphrases, antiphrasis, apartnesses, apparitions, artisanship, aspirations, ceratopsian, greasepaint, naturopaths, nonpartisan, pageantries, pancratiums, pancreatins, pantographs, paramagnets, parliaments, pastureland, paternalism, paternalist, peasantries, phalanstery, planarities, postcranial, praetorians, pyracanthas, reparations, separations, standpatter, straphanger, supernatant, transalpine, transparent, transplants, transshaped, transshapes, unaspirated, unseparated.