Definitions for Melos

Melos mel·os

Spelling: [mel-os, -ohs, mee-los, -lohs]
IPA: /ˈmɛl ɒs, -oʊs, ˈmi lɒs, -loʊs/

Melos is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in Melos (elmos).

Definitions for Melos

noun

  1. the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
  2. a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).
  3. a city in NE Uruguay.

Origin of Melos

First recorded in 1730-40, melos is from the Greek word mélos song, tune

Examples for Melos

The second extends from the peace of Nicias to the massacre of melos.

The Venus of melos stands as the chief feature of one gallery.

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.

One from melos, in the Athens Museum, has a porte-caustique.

melos, they knew, was not by any means on their straight course to Corinth.

Euripides must have been brooding on the crime of melos during the autumn and winter.

She felt as one might who should catch the Venus of melos cutting capers.

When compared with the divine figure of the Venus of melos, though pleasing, it appears degenerate.

Yet we only know the Venus of melos from the island where she was discovered.

Found in 1820 on the island of melos at the entrance of the Greek Archipelago.

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