spartan.

1. Austere and lacking comforts or ornament.

2. Relating to Sparta or its historical people and institutions.

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• spartan room

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The spartan room contained only a cot.

Their spartan quarters offered little comfort.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Comparative more spartan; superlative most spartan where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.