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Syracusan

American  
[sir-uh-kyoo-suhn, -zuhn] / ˈsɪr əˌkyu sən, -zən /

noun

plural

Syracusans
  1. a person from Syracuse.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Syracuse or its people.

Example Sentences

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A Slovakian gets a long rave from the ultimate Syracusan.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2021

The historian Plutarch tells a moving story about the thousands of Athenian soldiers held prisoner in roasting Syracusan quarries after a disastrous campaign in 413 BC.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2013

Archimedes’ talents were useful to the Syracusan military as well.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The sophist uses the word Dinnerchaser, on which Clearchus says that Charmus the Syracusan adopted some little versicles and proverbs very neatly to whatever was put on the table.

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

The eruption which dislodged the Syracusan colony is supposed to have given rise to that mighty current which forms the promontory of Zaro and Caruso.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir