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1. Resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity
   "spartan courage"
    
2. Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
   "a Spartan upbringing"
   - severe
    
3. Practising great self-denial
   "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
   - ascetic, ascetical, austere

1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

1. A resident of Sparta

Derived forms: Spartans

See also: abstemious, nonindulgent, resolute, Sparta, strict

Type of: Greek, Hellene

Part of: Sparta

Encyclopedia: Spartan