Definitions for Sporades

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Sporades Spor·a·des

Spelling: [spawr-uh-deez; Greek spaw-r

IPA: /ˈspɔr əˌdiz; Greek spɔˈrɑ ðɛs/

Sporades is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 399 anagrams from letters in Sporades (adeoprss).

Definitions for Sporades

plural noun

1. two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the one (Northern Sporades) off the E coast of Greece; the other (Southern Sporades) including the Dodecanese, off the SW coast of Asia Minor.

Examples for Sporades

At Anaphe, one of the Sporades, they were saved from a storm by Apollo.

At present we are to describe the remaining islands of the Sporades, which deserve mention.

To the Sporades also are to be referred the islands about Crete, which I have already mentioned.

The island of Euboea, the Cyclades and the northern Sporades were added to the new kingdom.

He was also at Anaphe, one of the Sporades; which island was denominated Membliaros from one of his followers.

Delos,833 the Cyclades about it, and the Sporades adjacent to these, belong rather to the Ægæan sea.

But if by Syria we understand one of the Sporades or Cyclades, we are furnished with a ready solution of this enigma.

Sporades, a group of islands in the Ægean Sea, of which the largest is the Mitylene.