Sidon

American  

[sahyd-n] / ˈsaɪd n /

noun

1. a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.

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Sidon British  

/ ˈsaɪdən /

noun

1. the chief city of ancient Phoenicia: founded in the third millennium _bc ; wealthy through trade and the making of glass and purple dyes; now the Lebanese city of Saïda

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Other Word Forms

• Sidonian
  adjective

Example Sentences

For now, he would take what stock he could and open a shop in Sidon or Beirut.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

At a crowded school-turned-shelter in the coastal city of Sidon, displaced people sat in classrooms drinking coffee, waiting for official authorisation to return.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

The roughly 1,000-mile-long pipeline began operations in 1950, connecting oilfields of eastern Saudi Arabia to the port of Sidon in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

"In the south, we're very resilient, we're used to bombardments... I'd never left my house until now," said Mustafa Khairallah, now sheltering in Sidon.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

There was another, known far more widely—Europa, the daughter of the King of Sidon.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton