Siphnos

American  

[sif-nos, -naws] / ˈsɪf nɒs, -nɔs /

Or Sifnos

noun

1. a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

To the southeast of Eubœa are the Cyclades—a group of islands of which Delos, Andros, Tenos, Myeonos, Naxos, Paros, Olearos, Siphnos, Melos, and Syros, were the most important.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John

Certain central Aegean islands, Antiparos, Ios, Amorgos, Syros and Siphnos, were all found to be singularly rich in evidence of the middle-Aegean period.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

You had better come home with me, and I'll treat you to some perfumed wine that I received yesterday from Siphnos.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

And Diphilus of Siphnos pronounces plums to be juicy, digestible, and easily evacuated, but not very nutritious.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Greece had once been rich in mines, which had been a source of wealth and prosperity to Siphnos and Atticus, and had laid the foundation of the power of Philip of Macedon.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various