"spartan" in the noun sense
1. Spartan
a resident of Sparta
"spartan" in the adjective sense
1. Spartan
of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
2. spartan
resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity
"spartan courage"
3. severe, spartan
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"
4. ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan
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"
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