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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient town of central Greece near Mount Parnassus. Dating to at least the seventh century BC, it was the seat of a famous oracle of Apollo.
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- proper noun A city of ancient
Greece . - proper noun A
programming language based on PASCAL. - proper noun A method for obtaining consensus from a group of experts; see Delphi method in Wikipedia.
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- noun an ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the oracle of Delphi
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DELPHI - A fire has destroyed a historic building in the northern Indiana city of Delphi that housed a tavern and ...
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DELPHI -- A Saturday morning fire damaged a Delphi house but caused no injuries, officials said.
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DELPHI -- Peter Kieran Leahy, 80, died at 3: 40 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009, at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Delphi.
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DELPHI -- Ralph Edgar Godbey, 69, of Delphi, died at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 7, 2009, at his residence.
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DELPHI -- A Saturday morning fire damaged a Delphi house but caused no injuries, officials said.
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DELPHI -- Unable to pay the bill, Dolly Speer of Delphi had her gas service disconnected earlier this month.
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DELPHI -- Delphi volleyball coach Suzanne Hughes likes to bet on her team.
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DELPHI -- Jewell Clouse Freeman, 50, of Delphi, died Thursday, June 25, 2009, at Home Hospital in Lafayette.
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NSA operative and Athena graduate Allison Gracelyn code name Delphi is stunned when she realizes she has been framed as a traitor.
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But the other, Indiana Packers in Delphi, Ind., has several possible cases that are being investigated.
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Daphne_de_Laurier commented on the word Delphi
Delphi (Greek ??????) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, when it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo. - From Wikipedia
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hernesheir commented on the word Delphi
Delphi is both a mature environment and a powerful language. --Wordnik example sentence.
October 11, 2011