AEGEAN ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aegean island mean? 

• AEGEAN ISLAND (noun)
  The noun AEGEAN ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. an island in the Aegean Sea

  Familiarity information: AEGEAN ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEGEAN ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the Aegean Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("Aegean island" is a kind of...):

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Instance hyponyms:

Aegina; Aigina (an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf)

Chios; Khios (an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece)

Cyclades; Kikladhes (a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean)

Dhodhekanisos; Dodecanese (a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea)

Lesbos; Lesvos; Mytilene (an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry)

Rhodes; Rodhos (a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes)

Holonyms ("Aegean island" is a part of...):

Aegean; Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)