Definition of Aegean island

1. Noun. An island in the Aegean Sea.

Specialized synonyms: Aegina, Aigina, Chios, Khios, Cyclades, Kikladhes, Dhodhekanisos, Dodecanese, Lesbos, Lesvos, Mytilene, Rhodes, Rodhos
Group relationships: Aegean, Aegean Sea
Generic synonyms: Island

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aegean Island

Aedes leucocelaenus
Aedes polynesiensis
Aedes scapularis
Aedes sollicitans
Aedes variegatus
Aegadean Islands
Aegadean Isles
Aegadian Islands
Aegates
Aegates Isles
Aegean
Aegean Sea
Aegean civilisation
Aegean civilization
Aegean culture
Aegean island (current term)
Aegeans
Aegen
Aegenbald
Aegenwulf
Aegiceras
Aegiceras majus
Aegidius
Aegilops triuncalis
Aegina
Aeginetan
Aegis cruiser
Aegis cruisers

Literary usage of Aegean island

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

1. Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Crete and the Aegean Islands by British Museum Dept. of Coins and Medals, Warwick Wroth, Reginald Stuart Poole (1886)
"Aegean island!?. p. 549; Daremberg and Saglio, Diet, des ant., p. 4246; and Bronsted, Voyages et recherches en Grece, vol. i.). The constant obverse type of ..."

2. Further Discoveries of Cretan and Aegean Script: With Libyan and Proto by Arthur Evans (1898)
"... more attesting the early commercial relations between the Aegean island and the African Coast. It is remarkable that both Nos. 11 and 12, and 14, ..."

3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1914)
"6 offered to abandon sovereign righto in ('rote on condition that t ho Alii« would not demand the cession of tin other Aegean island«, but refuel t< ..."

4. An Ancient History for Beginners by George Willis Botsford (1902)
"In 416 BC Alcibiades persuaded Athens to send a fleet against Me'los, now the only Aegean island outside of her empire. It was a colony of Lacedaemon, ..."

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