Salamis

American  

[sal-uh-mis, sah-lah-mees] / ˈsæl ə mɪs, ˌsɑ lɑˈmis /

noun

1. an island off the SE coast of Greece, W of Athens, in the Gulf of Aegina: Greeks defeated Persians in a naval battle 480 b.c. 39 sq. mi. (101 sq. km).

2. an ancient city on Cyprus, in the E Mediterranean: the apostle Paul made his first missionary journey to Salamis. Acts 13:5.

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Salamis British  

/ ˈsæləmɪs /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Salamina.  an island in the Saronic Gulf, Greece: scene of the naval battle in 480 _bc , in which the Greeks defeated the Persians. Pop (municipality): 28 423 (2001). Area: 95 sq km (37 sq miles)

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Other Word Forms

• Salaminian adjective

Example Sentences

Themistocles led the Athenian navy against the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., but when he fell out of favor with the Athenians, he offered his services to the Persian king, who made him governor of a city in Asia Minor.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the excellent biography “Themistocles,” part of Yale’s Ancient Lives series, Michael Scott, a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Warwick in England, addresses a central question: How could a man who had devoted his life to Athens—a veteran of the Battle of Marathon in 490 and the hero of Salamis a decade later, a leader who had built Athens’s navy into the most powerful in Greece—have turned his back on all that and served the enemy against which his career had been built?

From The Wall Street Journal

It was these rowers, whose only qualifications were their citizenship and their being able-bodied, who dealt the blow to the Persians at Salamis.

From The Wall Street Journal

The warship's welcoming ceremony outside the naval base of Salamis included a copy of an ancient Athenian trireme and the Georgios Averof, a historic cruiser that fought in the Balkan Wars.

From Barron's

This trio showcases three of their standout dry-aged salamis, each one worthy of its own moment.

From Salon