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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: metanastês 2: anachôrêtês 3: metêlus 4: halieus 5: sunoikos
Latin1: concolona 2: pereger 3: impetiginosus 4: collusor 5: quattuorviralis
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Words That Regularly Appear With metoikos
In Perseus Texts:xenospolitêsdoulosastosxenoô
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metoikos, ho, hê, settler from abroad, alien resident in a foreign city, denizen, Aesch. Seven 548, ti=Aesch. Supp. 994, Hdt. 4.151, etc.; esp. at Athens, Thuc. 2.13, Andoc. 1.15, etc.; xenos logôi m., opp. engenês, Soph. OT 452, cf. Aristoph. Ach. 508, ti=Aristoph. Kn. 347, SIG799.25 (Cyzic., i A.D.); m. gês one who has settled in a country, Aesch. Pers. 319; m. domôn, chôras, IDEM=Aesch. Lib. 971 (lyr.), Soph. OC 934; en têi tôn plêsion Andoc. 1.144; brotois oute <nekros> nekroisin metoikos, ou zôsin, ou thanousin whose home is neither with the living nor the dead, Soph. Ant. 852 (lyr.): metaph., of birds, as sojourners in the heavens, Aesch. Ag. 57 (anap.).

2. occupant of the same house with another, Sammelb.5837 (ii A.D.).