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Definition: Lesbos |
LesbosNoun1. An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Lesbos" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lesbos is an island in the Aegean Sea near Turkey but belonging to Greece.In modern Greek, the island's name is Lesvos and its inhabitants are Lesvonians (rather than Lesbians), or Lesviots.
Principal towns on the island are Mytiline (the capital), Kalloni, Mythimna, Plomari, Agiassos, Petra.
The island has been inhabited since the Bronze Age. It is first mentioned in Hittite records as Lazpa.
In Greek mythology, "Lesbos" was also the name of the patron god of the island, son of Lapithes. He married Methymna.
The word lesbian is derived from the island's name. This originates in the poems of Sappho of Lesbos, where love between women was described. Due to this link, Lesbos has often been the destination of cruises and other vacations for lesbians; however, Lesvonian authorities have expressed a dim view of this, with some cruise ships even being denied permission to dock.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lesbos."
Synonyms: LesbosSynonyms: Lesvos (n), Mytilene (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lesbos |
| English words defined with "Lesbos": Aeolia, Aeolis, Alcaeus ♦ lesbian ♦ Sappho. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lesbos": Assos ♦ Lesbian Poets ♦ Mitylene ♦ Speaking Heads. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hotel Lesbos (1986) Les Lesbos of Paris 2 (1985) Loving Lesbos (1983) | |
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| "Lesbos" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Lesbos" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lesbos | 463 | naked lesbos | 19 |
teen lesbos | 97 | horny lesbos | 17 |
hot lesbos | 56 | big boobed lesbos | 16 |
free lesbos | 51 | latina lesbos | 16 |
asian lesbos | 48 | mature lesbos | 15 |
black lesbos | 48 | hardcore lesbos | 15 |
nude lesbos | 40 | pussy licking lesbos | 14 |
hentai lesbos | 33 | fat lesbos | 14 |
amateur lesbos | 31 | lipstick lesbos | 13 |
dildo lesbos | 29 | free lesbos pic | 13 |
lesbos island | 29 | sappho lesbos | 13 |
lesbos kissing | 28 | porn lesbos | 12 |
young lesbos | 27 | safo de lesbos | 12 |
ebony lesbos | 27 | big tit lesbos | 12 |
sexy lesbos | 26 | anime lesbos | 12 |
blonde lesbos | 23 | lesbos picture | 12 |
isle of lesbos | 23 | lickin lesbos | 12 |
101 lesbos | 22 | ass lesbos | 12 |
vampyros lesbos | 21 | lesbos strapons | 11 |
licking lesbos | 21 | ||
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: bless, boles, lobes, loess, loses, slobs, sloes, soles. | |
-2 letters: bels, bole, boss, less, lobe, lobs, lose, loss, obes, oles, oses, sels, slob, sloe, sobs, sole, sols. | |
-3 letters: bel, bos, els, ess, lob, obe, oes, ole, ose, sel, sob, sol, sos. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, el, es, lo, oe, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: blouses, bolases, boluses, bowless, jobless. | |
+2 letters: absolves, biolyses, blesboks, blotless, bobsleds, bodiless, boldness, bolshies, bolsters, boneless, bootless, browless, lobsters, noblesse, obelises, obelisks, obelisms, outbless, possible, sabulose, slobbers, solubles, tombless. | |
+3 letters: abelmosks, abolishes, absolutes, absolvers, albumoses, bestowals, bloodless, blossomed, blousiest, blowsiest, bluenoses, boletuses, bonspells, bonspiels, boundless, bowelless, buglosses, bullnoses, colobuses, crossable, disbowels, doubtless, dowsabels, embolisms, kilobases, lobscouse, mobilises, nobleness, noblesses, obsolesce, obsoletes, obstacles, omissible, possibler, saltboxes, shoebills, slobbiest, snowbells, snowbelts, sociables, storables, strobiles, subsoiled, subsoiler, symbolise. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 73 62 6F 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ... -... --- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110011 01100010 01101111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e s b o s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0073 0062 006F 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467185688185 |
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