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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of northeast Greece in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey northwest of Lesbos. Occupied in ancient times by Greeks, the island was later held by Persians, Romans, Byzantines, and Ottoman Turks. It became part of modern Greece in 1913.
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- proper noun Island in northeastern
Greece located in theAegean Sea .
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- noun a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties
Etymologies
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Examples
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My son knew the Greek alphabet; hence, he could read the word Lemnos, although he could not possibly have translated it.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858
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Isle of Lemnos, which is the island where Jason and the Argonauts landed, and found Hypsipele and the women who had murdered their husbands.
Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931
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Sinthians were a race of robbers, the ancient inhabitants of Lemnos which island was ever after sacred to Vulcan.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Lemnos which island was ever after sacred to Vulcan.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716
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And hardware-focused incubator Lemnos Labs plans to make roughly six $50,000 investments in hardware start-ups in coming months.
Hardware Makers Draw Cash as New Gizmos Pop Up Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011
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Praetor Lemnos and Rish Limbaugh? as the renegade Rimborian is about to find out…
Hero History: Thunder | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The fire festival was on Lemnos, island of Hephaestus, not Lesbos, island of Sappho.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Do “We Need a Good, Violent Movie About Salamis”? 2009
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The fire festival was on Lemnos, island of Hephaestus, not Lesbos, island of Sappho.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Do “We Need a Good, Violent Movie About Salamis”? 2009
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The overwhelmingly popular pet theory that has been published ad nauseum for decades is that murinail must mean "of Myrina" since Myrina is an ancient city on the Lemnos island.
Nouns modifying nouns in Etruscan and related languages 2009
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The overwhelmingly popular pet theory that has been published ad nauseum for decades is that murinail must mean "of Myrina" since Myrina is an ancient city on the Lemnos island.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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