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

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

Nasser Ajram, a paramedic for a local NGO in Sidon, was gripped by anxiety despite his determination to continue his humanitarian mission.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

In the southern city of Sidon, cars of families fled on packed roads with mattresses tied to their roofs.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Sidon has a long-standing reputation for taking in internally displaced people driven from their homes along the Lebanon-Israel border.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2025

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