spartan
adjective
uk
/ˈspɑː.tən/ us
/ˈspɑːr.tən/Meaning of spartan in English
(Definition of spartan from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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spartan
adjective
us
/ˈspɑrt·ən/Examples of spartan
spartan
Thereforethe number of types in databases is not spartan.
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This spartan setting has proved appealing to researchers.
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These are dense agglomerations with spartan if elegant detailingdeforming with respect to context (directed views outwardsand inwards) as much as being formed according to any a priori diktat.
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Even thenconditions were spartan.
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Ueno's utopia was an efficient and equitable yet rather spartan worldin which luxury goods would be banished but the minimum necessities of life would be provided for all.
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The facilities in the ante-natal clinic are spartaninadequate and undignified for patients.
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They live in spartan comfort they are adequately fedbut they are made to keep at it and there is no question of enforced idleness.
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There is not a university or university college in the country where these spartan conditions prevail.
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They must be given a hard trainingand they must realise that a spartan existence is called for from the start.
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There is a complete reversal of the trend towards spartan facilities such as we tended to see in this country.
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I have visited the camps and know that they are pretty spartanunpleasant places in which to spend any time.
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These are being entertained andas evidence of the lack of a spartan régimeone prisoner is claiming for possessions lost in the riot.
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If the people he thinks should undertake these spartan courses did not want to gowould he force them?
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It was described by the regimental medical officer as tolerable but spartan.
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Do we need to worry that such establishments are spartan?
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