🔤 Metic

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URDU

غیر ملکی باشندہ، پناہ گزین، پردیسی، اجنبی، غیر شہری
🅰️ 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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