Skyros

American  

[skahy-ros, -rohs, skee-raws] / ˈskaɪ rɒs, -roʊs, ˈski rɔs /

Or Skíros,

noun

1. a Greek island in the W Aegean: the largest island of the Northern Sporades. 81 sq. mi. (210 sq. km).

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Skyros British  

/ ˈskiːrɒs /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Skíros.  a Greek island in the Aegean, the largest island in the N Sporades. Pop: 2602 (2001). Area: 199 sq km (77 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

For me, that place is Skyros — an out-of-the-way Greek island where I have spent every long, hot summer since the age of five, when my parents bought a tiny stable in the hilltop village.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2020

My apartment in Athens is not much bigger than our one-room home on Skyros.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2020

Skyros ponies, thought to have pulled Achilles' legendary chariot, have declined to about 200 animals left on Earth.

From National Geographic

April 5—Dedication of monument to the late Poet Rupert Brooke; at his grave on Skyros Island, Greece.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the grave among the olive trees on the island of Skyros, Brooke found at least one Certainty—that of being "among the English poets."

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher