Trojan
pronunciation
How to pronounce Trojan in British English:
UK [ˈtrəʊdʒən]
How to pronounce Trojan in American English:
US [ˈtroʊdʒən]
-
- Noun:
- a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful
Word Origin
- Trojan (adj.)
- Old English Troian "of or pertaining to ancient Troy," from Latin Trojanus, from Troia, Troja "Troy," from the Greek name for the city, said to be from Tros, name of a king of Phrygia, the mythical founder of Troy. Trojan horse was figurative of ambush-from-within in Roman times (equus Troianus); attested in English from 1570s; the computer virus sense is attested by 1982. As a noun from mid-14c., "inhabitant of ancient Troy;" in early modern English, the noun could mean "a determined fellow, one who fights or works hard," from the Trojans' long resistance to the Greeks in the Trojan War, but also in 17c., it was a colloquial term for "person of dissolute life, carousing companion." The trade name for a brand of prophylactic contraceptive was registered 1927 in U.S.
Example
- 1. I didn 't kill him though agamemnon ordered to kill all the trojan .
- 2. The dpp portrays the pact as a trojan horse .
- 3. When the trojan paris absconded with helen , wife of the spartan king , war exploded .
- 4. Worms and trojan horses are considered types of viruses .
- 5. The senate republicans , just like the house ones , believe that the stimulus bill is something of a trojan horse .