Hĕl'len-ĭst, n.

[Gr. 'Ελληνιστής, Fr. Helléniste.]

1. One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; especially, a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and elsewhere.
2. One skilled in the Greek language; a Grecian.