ATTICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Attica mean? 

• ATTICA (noun)
  The noun ATTICA has 1 sense:

1. the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken

  Familiarity information: ATTICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("Attica" is a part of...):

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

 Context examples 

Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B’s before very long.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)