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Lesvos

Definition: Lesvos

Lesvos

Noun

1. 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.
 

"Lesvos" is a common misspelling or typo for: Lassos, Leaves, Levies, Levis.

Synonyms: Lesvos

Synonyms: Lesbos (n), Mytilene (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Lesvos

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lesvos, he Aiolike (reference)

  • Modern Greek philosophers on the human soul : selections from the writings of seven representative thinkers of modern Greece : Benjamin of Lesvos, Vrailas-Armenis, Skaltsounis, St. Nectarios, Louvaris, Kontoglou, and Theodorakopoulos : on the nature and i (reference)

  • Saints Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene of Lesvos (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lesvos

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Greece

In November 1999, according to HRW, two journalists for Eleftherotypia were indicted for defamation for alleging that the Lesvos police were associated with smugglers; in December 2000, the journalists were acquitted by judicial decree. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lesvos

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  lesvos

808

  lesvos hotel

31

  lesvos greece

24

  lesvos island

14

  lesvos map

5

  lesvos petra

5

  lesvos molivos

5

  birding in lesvos

4

  apartment lesvos

3

  lesvos travel

3

  greek island lesvos

3

  camping lesvos

2

  lesvos rent a car

2

  city lesvos

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Lesvos

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: solves.

Words within the letters "e-l-o-s-s-v"

-1 letter: loess, loses, loves, sloes, soles, solve, voles.

-2 letters: less, levo, lose, loss, love, oles, oses, sels, sloe, sole, sols, voes, vole.

-3 letters: els, ess, lev, oes, ole, ose, sel, sol, sos, voe.

-4 letters: el, es, lo, oe, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-o-s-s-v"
 

+1 letter: salvoes, shovels, slovens, solvers, vowless.

 

+2 letters: absolves, dissolve, loveless, moveless, ovalness, plosives, resolves, saveloys, solvates, solvents, voteless.

 

+3 letters: aasvogels, absolvers, convulses, coverless, dissolved, dissolver, dissolves, evulsions, levuloses, loveseats, nonselves, novelises, novelists, ourselves, oversales, oversalts, oversells, overslips, oversouls, resolvers, savorless, shovelers, slipovers, valorises, visorless, vocalises, voiceless.

 

+4 letters: bolshevism, calvadoses, coverslips, cowlstaves, dissolvent, dissolvers, explosives, flashovers, flavorless, implosives, insolvents, livestocks, lovelessly, loveliness, lovingness, motiveless, movelessly, ovalnesses, overpluses, oversleeps, overspills, redissolve, resolvents, revulsions, semivowels, shovelfuls, shovellers, shovelnose, shovelsful, sleepovers, slipcovers, slivovices, solvencies, solvolyses, spillovers, visionless, volvuluses, yourselves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lesvos


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 73 76 6F 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    ...    ...-    ---    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01110011 01110110 01101111 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#115 &#118 &#111 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0073 0076 006F 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

467185888185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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