Definitions for Cyclades

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Cyclades Cyc·la·des

Spelling: [sik-luh-deez]

IPA: /ˈsɪk ləˌdiz/

Cyclades is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in Cyclades (accdelsy).

Definitions for Cyclades

noun

1. a tunic or surcoat, longer in back than in front, worn over armor in the Middle Ages.
2. a similar, full-length garment worn by women.
3. a round robe with an elaborately ornamented border, worn by women in ancient Rome.

plural noun

1. a group of Greek islands in the S Aegean. 1023 sq. mi. (2650 sq. km).

Origin of Cyclades

1825-35; Medieval Latin, Latin Greek kyklás, noun use of kyklás encircling, akin to kýklos cycle

Examples for Cyclades

The boy from Awarua waited anxiously for the latest election return from the islands of the Cyclades!

At Milo, one of the Cyclades, there is a hill which is honeycombed with a labyrinth of tombs running in every direction.

Originally, there were said to be twelve Cyclades, but many others were added to them.

Does Cassiodorus mean 'like the water-fowl,' or 'like the Cyclades?'

The same is the case with Melian white, because there is said to be a mine of it in Melos, one of the islands of the Cyclades.

Figs are also abundant, especially in Messenia and in the Cyclades.

The Gulf Stream limitation is at once given up; a new expedition to the Cyclades is in that case to take place.

I have seen it on Greek vases, and among the sailors of the Cyclades and on the Bosphorus.

The island of Santorin or Thera, is the southernmost of the Cyclades.

For of these islands, that is the Cyclades, not one was as yet subject to Dareios.