Tenedos

American  

[ten-i-dos, -dohs, ten-e-thaws] / ˈtɛn ɪˌdɒs, -ˌdoʊs, ˈtɛn ɛ ðɔs /

noun

1. an island in the Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, belonging to Turkey.

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Tenedos British  

/ ˈtɛnɪˌdɒs /

noun

1. Modern Turkish name: Bozcaada. an island in the NE Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles: in Greek legend the base of the Greek fleet during the siege of Troy

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Tenedos

We made good time, the huge sea smoothed before us, and held our rites when we reached Tenedos, being wild for home.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Homer describes an island off the coast, named Tenedos, and a mountain near called Mount Ida.

From Alexander the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

We resumed our voyage and I was thrilled when we passed Tenedos, touching at Besika Bay and seeing in the distance the Plains of Troy.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

Then pretending to raise the siege, they left it, and embarked, casting anchor near the isle of Tenedos.

From Heathen Mythology by Various

Then old Nestor was the first that volunteered to go into the horse; but Neoptolemus said that, brave as he was, he was too old, and that he must depart with the army to Tenedos.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang

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