Definitions for Lesbos

Lesbos Les·bos

Spelling: [lez-bos, -bohs; Greek lez-vaws]
IPA: /ˈlɛz bɒs, -boʊs; Greek ˈlɛz vɔs/

Lesbos is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in Lesbos (beloss).

Definitions for Lesbos

noun

  1. Mytilene (def 1).
  2. a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.

Origin of Lesbos

An Americanism dating back to 1935-40; lesb(ian) + -o

Examples for Lesbos

From Chios to Lesbos is a voyage of about 400 stadia, with a south wind.

Barbarossa himself was born in Lesbos, probably of a Greek mother.

His fleet was now off Cape Malta, the south-eastern promontory of Lesbos.

Issa is said to have been settled by people from Lesbos, the Issa of the Aegean.

As I have met with but one example of this, from Lesbos,7 I will summarize it briefly.

Theophrastus, of Lesbos, was a fullers son, and wrote a book on plants.

Archias had gone with Daphne to the island of Lesbos, his mother's native city.

This was on the island of Lesbos, famed as the home of Sappho, the Greek poetess.

In Lesbos near Mytilene there was a great estate of a great noble.

Lesbos seems to have taken the lead in this "higher education."

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