Sinope

American  

[suh-noh-pee] / səˈnoʊ pi /

noun

Astronomy.

1. a natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.

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Sinope British  

/ səˈnəʊpɪ /

noun

1. astronomy a small outer satellite of the planet Jupiter

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Example Sentences

These stories tell us that Diogenes was chased out of his native Sinope, on the north coast of what’s now Turkey, for his supposed role in a scheme to debase the city’s currency.

From The Wall Street Journal

Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the Pontus, the language of the first Greek colonizers of Trebizond was the Ionic Greek of Sinope.

From Science Daily

Ionians founded Miletus, which, in turn, founded Sinope, which, eventually, colonized Trebizond.

From Science Daily

In a version by the playwright Carcinus, on the other hand, she sends the children away for safekeeping, and the fourth-century Diogenes of Sinope, best known for his founding of the school of Cynic philosophy, wrote a version in which her role as a sorceress was downplayed.

From The Guardian