Adjective spartan has 4 senses
- Spartan - of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
- spartan - resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
Antonym: irresolute (indirect, via resolute)
- severe, spartan, strict - 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"
Antonym: indulgent (indirect, via nonindulgent)
- 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"
Antonym: gluttonous (indirect, via abstemious)
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Noun spartan has 1 sense
- Spartan - a resident of Sparta
--1 is a kind of Greek, Hellene
--1 is a member of Sparta
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