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Metic
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. Mitford. The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).