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adjective

Trojan adj.

Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.

One who shows the pluck, endurance, determined energy, strength, or the like, attributed to the defenders of Troy; used chiefly or only in the phrase like a Trojan; as, he endured the pain like a Trojan; he studies like a Trojan. "Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed."

noun

Trojan n. A native or inhabitant of Troy.

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"Trojan" Quotes from Famous Books

... led his trembling host To fields Campanian, and held the walls First founded by the chief of Trojan race (17). These chose he for the central seat of war, Some troops despatching who might meet the foe Where shady Apennine lifts up the ridge Of mid Italia; nearest to the sky Upsoaring, with the seas on either hand, The upper and the lower. Pisa's sands Breaking the margin ...

— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan

... itself at the present into another book, in twenty green leaves. You work like a Trojan at Ventnor, but you do that everywhere; and that's why you ...

— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 • Charles Dickens

... will I thus entangle Myself with Metaphysics? None can hate So much as I do any kind of wrangle; And yet, such is my folly, or my fate, I always knock my head against some angle About the present, past, or future state: Yet I wish well to Trojan and to Tyrian, For I was ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... with their Tyre 2750 "B.C." (a chronology, accepted by Western history), their commerce, fleet, learning, arts, and civilization, were only a few centuries before the building of Tyre but "a small tribe of Semitic fishermen"? Or, that the Trojan war could not have been earlier than 1184 B.C., and thus Magna Graecia must be fixed somewhere between the eighth and the ninth Century "B.C.," and by no means thousands of years before, as was claimed by Plato and Aristotle, ...

— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

... eye, and who for that object must remain fixed on shelves, like other marketable wares, avoiding motion to avoid shattering or tarnishing. This is their fate, only in degree less inhuman than that of Hellenic and Trojan princesses offered up to the Gods, or pretty slaves to the dealers. Their artificiality is at once their bane and their source of ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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