of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Aeolic
of or relating to Aeolus
denoting or relating to an authentic mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from A to A: the basis of the modern minor key See also Hypo-
First recorded in 1595–1605; Aeoli(us) pertaining to Aeolus + -an adjective suffix; see -an
First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin Aeoli(ī), (from Greek Aioleîs “the Aeolians,” with change of suffix) + -an
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The cost of the drinking water produced by desalination plants on the Aeolian Islands is around two euros per cubic metre.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Experts at navigating the steep landscape of Alicudi, in the Aeolian archipelago north of Sicily, the goats have become a problem as they damage gardens and allotments.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
It’s one of the Aeolian islands in Italy, and it looks out on Stromboli.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
At first we turned to nature: The Aeolian harps found across ancient civilizations required only the intervention of the wind to share their song.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
Four vocalists were to be chosen to compete in the final round, but soon after Marian had returned from Aeolian Hall to Boghetti’s New York studio, the phone rang.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Finally, the fourth removes all anthropogenic sources for reference, thus only accounting for natural sources such as aeolian dust, marine and terrestrial biosphere emissions, and natural wildfires.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
She’d designed as she would have designed for herself, a cathedral carved into a hillside, and aeolian pipes in it and grown into the trees outside.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022
“It’s obviously a simplification, but I imagine I would be closer to the activist side of the spectrum,” says Taylor, whose less aeolian approach set him at odds with one French writer, Maylis de Kerangal.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2019
With sufficient sediment influx, aeolian systems can potentially form large dunes in dry or wet conditions.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Perhaps it was that aeolian harmony which recalled to the Story Girl a legend of elder days.
From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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