Definition of Hellespont

1. Noun. The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey.

Exact synonyms: Canakkale Bogazi, Dardanelles
Group relationships: Republic Of Turkey, Turkey
Generic synonyms: Sound, Strait

Definition of Hellespont

1. n. A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Ægean Sea and the sea of Marmora.

Definition of Hellespont

1. Proper noun. The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellespont

Hellenize
Hellenized
Hellenizer
Hellenizers
Hellenizes
Hellenizing
Helleno-
Hellenophile
Hellenophiles
Hellenophilia
Hellens
Heller's plexus
Heller myotomy
Heller operation
Hellerwork
Hellespont
Hellespontian
Hellespontine
Hellhole
Hellholes
Hellin's law
Hellman
Hello World
Hells Angel
Helluland
Hellward
Helly's fixative
Helm
Helmand
Helmholtz

Literary usage of Hellespont

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"RM H«UM- The geographers who, with the most skilful accuracy, have surveyed the font) and extent of the hellespont, assign about sixty miles for the winding ..."

2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"t * i hellespont before him. But hearing that he was by at m Chios, ... The 3 [" For the most potent &c. had hellespont and Bosporus, the great brought over ..."

3. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1893)
"THE hellespont AND MYSIA. The tide of the hellespont now begins to run with greater violence ... 9 Still known as Tenedos, near the mouth of the hellespont. ..."

4. Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age by William Ewart Gladstone (1858)
"In later times, the name hellespont has been restricted to the narrow strait between the Sea of Marmora and the Archipelago. In Homer it bore this sense, ..."

5. A Short History of Greece by William Spry Robinson (1895)
"A squadron THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE hellespont was sent thither, of which ten ships only arrived, the rest being driven back by a storm; but they were ..."

6. Herodotus by Herodotus (1812)
"The former of these 55 On that of the hellespont^—It seems a matter of certainty that these ... T. Since the hellespont, in the neighbourhood of Abydos, ..."

7. Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer by Heinrich Schliemann, Archibald Henry Sayce (1884)
"THE ADVANCE OF THE SEA UPON THE SHORES OF THE hellespont. ... 91, Mr. Frank Calvert's learned dissertation on the Asiatic Coast of the hellespont, ..."

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