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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Example Sentences

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

"Making for the fleet off Tenedos," replied the Sub.

From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Then all the rest of the Greeks should embark in their ships and sail to the Isle of Tenedos, and lie hidden behind the island.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew

And Antiphanes enumerates "mustard, and also scammony juice from Cyprus; cardamums from Miletus; onions from Samothrace; cabbages, kail, and assafœtida from Carthage; thyme from Hymettus, and marjoram from Tenedos."

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

There is no doubt about Sigeum and Rhoeteum, or the river Scamander, or the islands Imbros, Lemnos and Tenedos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various