Orontes

American  

[aw-ron-teez, oh-ron-] / ɔˈrɒn tiz, oʊˈrɒn- /

noun

1. a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.

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Orontes British  

/ ɒˈrɒntiːz /

noun

1. Arabic name: `Asi.  a river in SW Asia, rising in Lebanon and flowing north through Syria into Turkey, where it turns west to the Mediterranean. Length: 571 km (355 miles)

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Example Sentences

Antioch, built in 300 B.C. by a general of Alexander the Great in the Orontes River valley, was one of the biggest cities of the Greco-Roman world, rivaling Alexandria and Constantinople.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Tulin Kuseyri, a 62-year-old Turkish woman, stood by the Orontes River in Antakya on Thursday, watching searchers remove a body from an apartment building.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023

“We just wanted to get out,” one scraggly rebel survivor, Wassim, 23, told me at the banquet hall on the Orontes where they were gathered, declining to give his full name for security reasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2016

A rainbow forms over the Orontes River valley.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2013

She has promis'd to marry me the 16th of this Month, said Orontes, and therefore my Lord, I hope you wont take it ill if I leave you upon so weighty an Affair.

From Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady by Anonymous