Definition of Dromoi

1. Noun. (plural of dromos) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dromoi

1. dromos [n] - See also: dromos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dromoi

dromaeosaurids
dromaeosaurs
dromatherium
drome
dromedaries
dromedary
dromedary hump
dromeosaur
dromeosaurs
dromes
dromic
dromical
dromion
dromions
dromograph
dromoi (current term)
dromology
dromomania
dromon
dromond
dromonds
dromons
dromos
dromostanolone propionate
dromotropic
dromæognathism
dromæognathous
dromæosaur
dromæosaurid
dromæosaurids

Literary usage of Dromoi

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

1. The Neolithic and Bronze Ages by Sara Anderson Immerwahr (1971)
"Tomb VII is unusual for its two dromoi, of which one is clearly a later addition in the interests of expediency.21 The dromos ..."

2. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadionby David Gilman Romano, ( by David Gilman Romano, ( (1993)
"Examples of this variety of aromos are found in the gymnasium at Olympia where parallel dromoi have been found in the eastern stoa of the Hellenistic ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"In due order succeed the dromoi (or courses) of Azania, the one going by the name of Sarapion and the other by that of Nikon ..."

4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Its tombs are mostly rock-cut chambers, approached by sloping dromoi; but there are also pits, from one of which came a remarkable ivory mirror handle of ..."

5. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"There are indications that each of the-* temples may have been connected with those facing it upon two sides by grand dromoi, lined with sphinxes and other ..."

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