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2 dictionary results for: ostracon
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os⋅tra⋅con   [os-truh-kon] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -ca  [-kuh] Show IPA Pronunciation .

(in ancient Greece) a potsherd, esp. one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.

Also, ostrakon.
Origin:
1880–85; < Gk óstrakon; see ostracize
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    (ŏs'trə-kŏn')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. os·tra·ca (-kə)
An inscribed potsherd.

[Greek ostrakon, shell; see ost- in Indo-European roots.]

os·tra·con

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Tel - artificial mound created by successive civilizations settling on one site.