Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Two island groups of Greece in the Aegean Sea, consisting of the Northern Sporades off the central mainland and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and other islands off the coast of Turkey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of scattered islands in the Greek Archipelago.
- In ancient astronomy, stars which were not included in any constellation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Astron.) Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also
informed , orunformed , stars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun An
archipelago in theAegean Sea .
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Examples
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Between the Cyclades and Asia Minor lie the Sporades, which islands, as the name implies, are sown irregularly over that portion of the Aegean.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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(M306) The islands called the Sporades lie to the south and east of the
Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852
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Note 28: Note that at the time of publication, less than one-third of the Greek-speaking population lived within the borders of the new Greek state, which was then comprised of the Peloponnese, Roumeli, Attica, Evvoia, and the islands of the Western Aegean (Cyclades and Sporades).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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An attentive traveller may convince himself by his own eyes that the Cyclades and the Sporades were once part of the continent of
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After leaving Aulis, the sleek hulls would have passed through the channel between the Greek coast and the island of Euboea and then turned eastward, island-hopping from the Sporades to Lemnos to Imbros.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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After leaving Aulis, the sleek hulls would have passed through the channel between the Greek coast and the island of Euboea and then turned eastward, island-hopping from the Sporades to Lemnos to Imbros.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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There, it was arranged to have one copy taken to the island garrison of the Sporades and another to Volos.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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There, it was arranged to have one copy taken to the island garrison of the Sporades and another to Volos.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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There, it was arranged to have one copy taken to the island garrison of the Sporades and another to Volos.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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There, it was arranged to have one copy taken to the island garrison of the Sporades and another to Volos.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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