The Clue
Athenian's rival (7 letter answer)
The Answer
SPARTAN
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Notes
The answer SPARTAN is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 850 puzzles.
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Austere
Dauntless
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Laconic
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Hardly decorated
Highly disciplined
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Rigorously simple
Sternly disciplined
Lacking the traditional comforts
Lacking luxury and comfort
Definition
SPARTAN as a noun:
1. a resident of Sparta
SPARTAN as an adjective:
1. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
2. 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"