Sample sentences for the GRE study word spartan

1. Spartan -- (of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people)
2. spartan -- (resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage")
3. severe, spartan -- (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")
4. ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan -- (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")

1. Spartan -- (a resident of Sparta)