Sicily

American  

[sis-uh-lee] / ˈsɪs ə li /

noun

1. an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9,924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Palermo.

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Sicily British  

/ ˈsɪsɪlɪ /

noun

1. Latin names: Sicilia, Trinacria. Italian name: Sicilia. the largest island in the Mediterranean, separated from the tip of SW Italy by the Strait of Messina: administratively an autonomous region of Italy; settled by Phoenicians, Greeks, and Carthaginians before the Roman conquest of 241 _bc ; under Normans (12th–13th centuries); formed the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies with Naples in 1815; mountainous and volcanic. Capital: Palermo. Pop: 4 972 124 (2003 est). Area: 25 460 sq km (9830 sq miles)

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Sicily Cultural  

1. Island in southern Italy on the Mediterranean Sea, separated from the Italian mainland by the narrow Strait of Messina. Its capital is Palermo.

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It is the largest Mediterranean island.

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• Sicilian
  adjective

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Sicily

Giuseppe Spadaro, director of a group that manages the Coop supermarkets in Sicily, said four of the company's 300 stores were hit.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Francesco Capra, born in Sicily, arrived in Los Angeles with his family at age 6.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

On the opposite side of the peninsula, the dark waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea surround Sardinia and Sicily.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Thunderstorms moved across the island on Friday, and while conditions have eased across Sicily, more are forecast across parts of the central Mediterranean.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But in other ways they were as different from each other as Sicily and Scandinavia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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