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• Sidonian
  Sidonian

  adjective

  relating to, coming from, or living in the ancient or present-day city of Sidon.
• sidonian
  sidonian

  adjective

  of or relating to the ancient Phoenician city of Sidon or its inhabitants

Sidonian

American  

[sahy-dohn-ee-uhn] / saɪˈdoʊn i ən /

adjective

1. relating to, coming from, or living in the ancient or present-day city of Sidon.

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noun

• Sidonians
  plural

1. a native or inhabitant of the ancient or present-day city of Sidon.

sidonian British  

/ saɪˈdəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the ancient Phoenician city of Sidon or its inhabitants

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Sidon

Other Word Forms

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• Sidonians
  plural

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Sidonian Sidonians

Beyond this interesting spot came the silk and cloth merchants, then the leather venders, brass and metal workers, and dealers in Egyptian and Sidonian jewelry.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

A mane of fine-spun golden hair fell over the shoulders of his Sidonian robe; his face was like the sunshine, and his eyes were filled with the gladness of living.

From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

The deed was barely done ere the Sidonian was on them.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

Exactly the same style which marks them belongs also to a mass of sepulchral monuments at Athens, and such works as the Sidonian sarcophagus of the Mourning Women, to be presently mentioned.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

The Phrygian queen to her rich wardrobe went, Where treasured odours breathed a costly scent; There lay the vestures of no vulgar art, Sidonian maids embroider’d every part.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

From the mining towns that they built in the jungle, surrounded by cyclopean walls and adorned with grotesque stone images, came the stores of gold with which the Sidonians enriched King Solomon.

From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman

Thus the sea, so rich in islands, the long but proportionately narrow basin which lay before the Sidonians, Giblites and Arvadites, would soon attract to longer voyages the fishermen and navigators of the coast.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Max Duncker

And, although the land was promised to Israel, yet two tribes, the Jebusites and Sidonians, resisted the attacks of Israel for more than four hundred years after they entered upon their promised possessions.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp

Its kings, Abibaal and his son Hiram, had become "Kings of the Sidonians", and are believed to have extended their sway over part of Cyprus.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie

The Sidonians sprang from Sidon, who was the first son of Canaan, according to Genesis 10th Chapter 15th verse.

From The Black Man, the Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History by James Morris Webb