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English

Adjective

austere, frugal or characterized by self-denial
: I went on the retreat to the monastery thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell to discover a simple, but comfortable bedroom.
resolute in the face of danger or adversity
: The spartan legionnaries vowed to fight to the death.
lacking in decoration and luxury
: After ten years as a fashion designer in the rough-and-tumble Garment District, Eloise left New York for the spartan but serene life of a farmer's wife.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet 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

Moby Dictionary
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