Trojan

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Tro·jan¹

(trō′jən)

1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Troy.

2. A person of courageous determination or energy.

[Middle English, from Latin Trōiānus, from Trōia, Troy, from Greek Troiā, Trōiā, from Trōs, the mythical founder of Troy.]

Tro′jan adj.

Tro·jan²

(trō′jən)

A celestial body that is in one of the two stable Lagrangian points of a two-body system, especially an asteroid with solar orbits at Jupiter's distance from the sun, but traveling 60° ahead of or behind the planet.

[From the official convention of naming such objects after the heroes of the Trojan War, a practice derived from the fact that the first such object to be observed was named after Achilles and the second after Patroclus.]

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Trojan

(ˈtrəʊdʒən)

1. (Peoples) a native or inhabitant of ancient Troy

2. a person who is hard-working and determined

adj

(Historical Terms) of or relating to ancient Troy or its inhabitants

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Tro•jan

(ˈtroʊ dʒən)
adj.

1. of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.

2. a native or inhabitant of Troy.

3. a person who shows determination or energy.

[before 900; Old English Trōiān < Latin Trōjānus]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

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Noun	1.	Trojan - a native of ancient Troy Dardan, Dardanian Ilion, Ilium, Troy - an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War Asian, Asiatic - a native or inhabitant of Asia
	2.	trojan - a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful; "the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm"; "when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse" trojan horse malevolent program - a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects
Adj.	1.	Trojan - of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants; "Trojan cities"

Translations

Trojaner trojanisch

lavorare come un negro

Trojan

[ˈtrəʊdʒən]

A. ADJ → troyano

B. N → troyano/a m/f
to work like a Trojan → trabajar como un mulo/una mula

C. CPD Trojan horse N (lit) → caballo m de Troya (fig) (concealing devious purposes) → tapadera f (Comput) → troyano m
Trojan War N → Guerra f de Troya

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Trojan

(Hist) → Trojaner(in) m(f), → Troer(in) m(f); to work like a Trojan (fig) → wie ein Pferd arbeiten; he’s a real Trojan (fig) → er ist wirklich eine treue Seele

(Comput, Internet) → Trojaner m (inf)

adj → trojanisch; (fig) → übermenschlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Trojan

[ˈtrəʊdʒən] adj & n → troiano/a

References in classic literature ?

Ida, men of substance, who drink the limpid waters of the Aesepus, and are of Trojan blood--these were led by Pandarus son of Lycaon, whom Apollo had taught to use the bow.

Would you have yet more gold, which some Trojan is to give you as a ransom for his son, when I or another Achaean has taken him prisoner?

For the mighty son of Saturn surely promised that we should succeed, when we Argives set sail to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans. He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.

Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered--the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cup-bearer.

Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans.

Priam's son, great Hector of the gleaming helmet, commanded the Trojans, and with him were arrayed by far the greater number and most valiant of those who were longing for the fray.

Here the Trojans and their allies divided their forces.

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?

"All who have not since perished must remember as though it were yesterday or the day before, how the ships of the Achaeans were detained in Aulis when we were on our way hither to make war on Priam and the Trojans. We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane-tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water.

Achilles and I are quarrelling about this girl, in which matter I was the first to offend; if we can be of one mind again, the Trojans will not stave off destruction for a day.

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In this way, without any preconceived intention, a body of epic poetry was built up by various writers which covered the whole Trojan story.

Of all this mass of epic poetry only the scantiest fragments survive; but happily Photius has preserved to us an abridgment of the synopsis made of each poem of the "Trojan Cycle" by Proclus, i.e.

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