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ˈsɪk ləˌdizcy·clades

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Cycladic civilization, Cycladic civilisation, Cycladic culture, Cycladesnoun

    the Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC

  2. Cyclades, Kikladhesnoun

    a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean

Wiktionary

  1. Cycladesnoun

    An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and Zea.

  2. Etymology: From Κυκλάδες, plural of Κυκλάς, from κύκλος.

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  1. cyclades

    Cyclades is a group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos. They are a popular tourist destination with noteworthy archaeological sites, clear beaches, and distinctive architecture. The most famous Cyclades islands include Santorini and Mykonos.

Wikidata

  1. Cyclades

    The Cyclades is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around, the sacred island of Delos. The Cyclades is where the native Greek breed of cat originated.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Cyclades

    islands belonging to Greece, on the East or the Ægean Sea, so called as forming a circle round Delos, the most famous of the group.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cyclades in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cyclades in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cyclades in a Sentence

  1. Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

    Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

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