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Peloponnesus

Definition: Peloponnesus

Peloponnesus

Noun

1. The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Peloponnesus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Peloponnesus

Synonyms: Peloponnese (n), Peloponnesian Peninsula (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Peloponnesus

English words defined with "Peloponnesus": ArgolicdoricGulf of Corinth, Gulf of LepantoLacedaemonian, LaconiaPeloponnesianSparta. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Peloponnesus": CicleniusElishah. (references)
Etymologies containing "Peloponnesus": Peloponnesian. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Peloponnesus

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Greece

The country consists of a large mainland; the Peloponnesus Peninsula, connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth; and more than 1,400 islands, including Crete, Rhodes, Corfu, and the Dodecanese and Cycladic groups. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peloponnesus

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

  peloponnesus

8
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Modern Translations: Peloponnesus

Language Translations for "Peloponnesus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

peloponez. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πελοπόννησοσ (morea, peloponnese). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eloponnesuspay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Peloponnesus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-n-o-o-p-p-s-s-u"

-3 letters: nonpluses, unloosens, unpeoples.

-4 letters: loneness, nonuples, nounless, openness, peploses, pepluses, popeless, selenous, unloosen, unlooses, unpeople.

-5 letters: ensouls, espouse, loosens, nelsons, nonplus, nonuple, nonuses, oneness, opposes, peepuls, peoples, spleens, sponson, supples, suppose, unloose.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-n-o-o-p-p-s-s-u"
 

+5 letters: nonsuperimposable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Peloponnesus


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

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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