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

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 Lang, Andrew

To Tenedos they come, And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge Their warlike fraughtage.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

Some time in that year Tenedos, Chios, Chalcis in Euboea, and probably the Euboean cities Eretria, Carystus and Arethusa gave in their adherence, followed by Perinthus, Peparethus, Sciathus and other maritime cities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

On the Saturday morning Father Finn heard the confessions of the men on board the transport, off Tenedos, said Mass, and gave Holy Communion.

From The Irish at the Front by MacDonagh, Michael