Patmos

[ pat-mos, -mohs, -muhs; Greek paht-maws ]

noun

1. one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the southwestern coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Revelation 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).

Patmos

/ ˈpætmɒs /

noun

1. a Greek island in the Aegean, in the NW Dodecanese: St John's place of exile (about 95 ad ), where he wrote the Apocalypse. Pop: 2984 (2001). Area: 34 sq km (13 sq miles)

Other Words From

• Patmi·an adjective

Example Sentences

He thinks of how the ocean-waves keep pounding, with cannon-roar, on the rocky beach of his Patmos prison isle.

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He spoke to John of them on the Isle of Patmos, and used the very things in them that men are trying to cast out.

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Our pity goes out not to "the ordinary intelligence," but to the cloudy dweller in Patmos.

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In this retirement—a Patmos amid the howling ocean of popery that surrounds us—a letter from England has reached me at last.

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St. John was put into a caldron of boiling oil, but escaped death in a miraculous manner, and was afterwards banished to Patmos.

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