Overview of noun spartan

The noun spartan has 1 sense

• Spartan -- (a resident of Sparta)

Overview of adj spartan

The adj spartan has 4 senses

• Spartan -- (of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people)


• spartan -- (resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage")


• 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")


• 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")