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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
koine is a noun meaning "a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire
a common language used by speakers of different languages
“Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for koine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.