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with Anu Garghelot
PRONUNCIATION:
(HEL-uht, HEE-luht)
MEANING:
noun:
A serf or slave.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Helos, a town in Laconia in ancient Greece, whose inhabitants were
enslaved. First recorded use: 1579.
NOTES:
Another word derived from the name of a town in Laconia is spartan,
which is coined after Sparta, the capital of Laconia. And Laconia has a
word coined after it too: laconic.
USAGE:
"Many wind up in jobs irrelevant to their training. That helot frothing
your coffee expected to become a barrister, not a barista."Jonathan Guthrie; Russell Groupies to Target Newbie Unis; Financial Times (London, UK); Sep 23, 2010. See more usage examples of helot in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. -James Anthony Froude, author and editor (1818-1894)
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