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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
ghair mulki bashinda, panah-geer, pardesi
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ENGLISH
📚noun
metic
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: / ˈ mɛt ɪ k/
Phonetic: met-ik
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DEFINITION
(In ancient Greece) A foreigner living in a Greek city-state who had some privileges but not full citizenship.
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
As a metic , he contributed to the city's economy but could not vote in the assembly.
The laws of Athens provided certain legal protections to every resident metic .
Many famous philosophers lived as a metic in Athens during the Golden Age.
The status of a metic was often inherited by the children of foreign parents.
A metic was required to pay a special tax in exchange for the right to live in the city.
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