Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Aeolian Islands

British  

plural noun

  1. another name for the Lipari Islands

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

The song was inspired by singer-guitarist Tom Russo’s visit to his parents’ birthplace in the Aeolian Islands, near Sicily, where he read about the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

From The Guardian Jun. 28, 2018

Textural characterization, major and volatile element quantification and Ar-Ar systematics of spherulites in the Rocche Rosse obsidian flow, Lipari, Aeolian Islands: a temperature continuum growth model.

From Nature Dec. 12, 2017

On his planned trip, to the Aeolian Islands near Sicily, he says he will paint on local newspapers with his Angora watercolors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2016

Ae'olus, son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, represented in Homer as the happy ruler of the Aeolian Islands, to whom Zeus had given dominion over the winds.

From Legends of Charlemagne by Bulfinch, Thomas

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training