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Troy

(troi)

1. also Il·i·on (ĭl′ē-ən, -ŏn′) or Il·i·um (-ē-əm) An ancient city of northwest Asia Minor near the Dardanelles. Originally a Phrygian city dating from the Bronze Age, it is the legendary site of the Trojan War and was captured and destroyed by Greek forces c. 1200 bc. The ruins of Troy were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1871.

2. A city of eastern New York on the Hudson River northeast of Albany. Settled in the 1780s, it is the seat of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (founded 1824).

troy

(troi)

adj. Abbr. t.

Of or expressed in troy weight.

[Middle English troye, after Troyes.]

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Troy

(trɔɪ)

(Placename) any of nine ancient cities in NW Asia Minor, each of which was built on the ruins of its predecessor. The seventh was the site of the Trojan War (mid-13th century bc). Also called: Ilion or Ilium

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troy

(trɔɪ)

adj.

expressed or computed in troy weight.

[1350–1400; Middle English troye, after Troyes, France, where it was standard]

Troy

(trɔɪ)

n.

1. Latin, Ilium. Greek, Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.

2. a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit. 68,700.

3. a city in E New York, on the Hudson River. 52,150.

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Noun	1.	troy - a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones; based on a 12-ounce pound and an ounce of 480 grains troy weight system of weights, weight - a system of units used to express the weight of something troy unit - any of the unit of the troy system of weights
	2.	Troy - an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War Ilion, Ilium Anatolia, Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan - a native of ancient Troy

Translations

TroiaTroja

Τροία

Troia

Troy

[trɔɪ] N → Troya f

troy

[ˈtrɔɪ] N (also troy weight) → peso m troy

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Troy

n (Hist) → Troja nt ? Helen

troy

n (also troy weight) → Troygewicht nt

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Troy

[trɔɪ] n → Troia

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Troy was not only a man of learning and experience in his profession-- he was also a man who had seen something of society at home and abroad.

Troy listened with an expression of satirical approval.

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Six epics with the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" made up the Trojan Cycle -- The "Cyprian Lays", the "Iliad", the "Aethiopis", the "Little Illiad", the "Sack of Troy", the "Returns", the "Odyssey", and the "Telegony".

The earliest of the post-Homeric epics of Troy are apparently the "Aethiopis" and the "Sack of Ilium", both ascribed to Arctinus of Miletus who is said to have flourished in the first Olympiad (776 B.C.).

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Troy! I know how you look at me on ordinary occasions, and I see how you look at me now.

Troy the trouble of ringing the bell by presenting himself in the drawing-room.

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Will you leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?

Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any service to him or no.

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This is how he tells of the way in which Aeneas saved his old father by carrying him on his shoulders out of the burning town of Troy when "The crackling flame was heard throughout the walls, and more and more the burning heat drew near."

or what more cruel chance Did hap to me in all Troy's overthrow?"

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They lived in Troy, New York, were well-to-do, respectable persons, and had many friends, some of whom, reading these lines, will doubtless learn for the first time the extraordinary fate of the young man.

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Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home.