Zante

American  

[zahn-tee, -tey, zan-] / ˈzɑn ti, -teɪ, ˈzæn- /

noun

1. a Greek island, off the W coast of Greece: southernmost of the Ionian Islands. 157 sq. mi. (407 sq. km).

2. a seaport on and the capital of this island.

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Zante British  

/ ˈzæntɪ /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Zákinthos.  Latin name: Zacynthus.  Ancient Greek name: Zakynthos.  an island in the Ionian Sea, off the W coast of Greece: southernmost of the Ionian Islands; traditionally belonged to Ulysses, king of Ithaca. Pop: 38 957 (2001). Area: 402 sq km (155 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Also known as Zante, Zakynthos hosts around a thousand nests but also hundreds of thousands of tourists per year.

From Barron's

Elsewhere in Greece, dozens of people were rescued by coastguards as fires inched towards beaches on the islands of Zante and Chios.

From BBC

Kai Roberts, 24, from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, was working in Zante when a quad bike he was on hit a wall on Sunday.

From BBC

Kai was initially taken to the general hospital in Zante after waiting an hour for the ambulance, but had to be flown to the Greek mainland.

From BBC

These days, you'll find it at a handful of spots around San Francisco besides the canonical Zante's, including Brothers Pizza and Al Hamra Indian Pizza & Curry — the latter being music writer and Bay Area native Daniel Bromfield's go-to, given its convenient location near the Bay Area Rapid Transit station.

From Salon