Spartan

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spartan \Spar"tan\, a. [L. Spartanus.]
     Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta;
     hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
     -- n. A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a
     person of great courage and fortitude.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Spartan
       adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
       2: resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity;
          "spartan courage"
       3: unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a
          parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a
          hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict
          disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing" [syn: {severe}, {strict}]
       4: practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically
          ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you
          would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's
          austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
          [syn: {ascetic}, {ascetical}, {austere}]
       n : a resident of Sparta

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  182 Moby Thesaurus words for "Spartan":
     Apostolic, Encratic, Laconian, Lenten, Pythagorean, Rechabite,
     Shaker, Spartanic, Stoic, abbreviated, abridged, abstemious,
     abstinent, accepting, aposiopestic, armed with patience, ascetic,
     astringent, austere, authoritarian, bald, bare, brief, brusque,
     candid, celibate, chaste, clam, clipped, close, common,
     commonplace, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed,
     continent, contracted, controlled, crisp, curt, cut, demanding,
     direct, disciplined, docked, dour, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish,
     elliptic, endurant, enduring, epigrammatic, exacting, exigent,
     exiguous, forbearing, frank, frugal, fruitarian, gnomic, grim,
     hard, harsh, homely, homespun, impoverished, indulgent, inornate,
     jejune, laconic, lean, lenient, limited, long-suffering,
     longanimous, man of iron, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, meticulous,
     miserly, narrow, natural, neat, nephalistic, niggardly,
     on the wagon, open, paltry, parsimonious, patient, patient as Job,
     persevering, philosophical, pithy, plain, plain-speaking,
     plain-spoken, pointed, poor, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pruned, puny,
     pure, reserved, rigid, rigorous, rugged, rustic, scant, scanty,
     scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, self-controlled, self-denying,
     sententious, severe, sexually abstinent, short, short and sweet,
     shortened, simple, simple-speaking, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight,
     slim, small, sober, spare, sparing, stark, starvation, stern,
     stingy, stinted, stoic, straightforward, straitened, strict,
     stringent, stunted, subsistence, succinct, summary, sworn off,
     synopsized, taciturn, teetotal, terse, thin, tight, to the point,
     tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, tough, truncated, unadorned,
     unaffected, understanding, unelaborate, unfancy, unfussy,
     unimaginative, unnourishing, unnutritious, unornate, unpoetical,
     unsparing, unvarnished, vegetarian, watered, watery