Thera

Greek Thi·ra

[theer-uh]

noun

1. a volcano on the Greek island of Santorini in the S Aegean Sea.

Thera

/ ˈθɪərə /

noun

1. Also called: Santoríni. Modern Greek name: Thíra. a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades: site of a Minoan settlement and of the volcano that ended Minoan civilization on Crete. Pop: 13 402 (2001)

Example Sentences

Thera Webb: Whether they're at a repository right now at a university or a historical society or in someone's shoebox under their bed, the letters of their great-grandmother who happened to be a scientist, but at this moment, if you don't know what you're looking for, you won't be able to find it.

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Archivist Thera Webb is working on it.

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Thera Webb: I believe it started around 2016 when one of the archivists at that time had been advocating for a focus on collecting the papers of women faculty.

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Thera Webb: Maybe somebody held onto all of the papers of some woman, but they were never accepted by a repository as a collection that people were interested in.

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Pearson is hoping to replicate a version of that success in a tree that was downwind of the volcano Thera when it erupted around 3500 years ago on the island of Santorini, possibly contributing to the fall of the Minoan civilization.

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