AEOLIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aeolis mean? 

• AEOLIS (noun)
  The noun AEOLIS has 1 sense:

1. an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC

  Familiarity information: AEOLIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEOLIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Aeolia; Aeolis

Instance hypernyms:

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)

Meronyms (parts of "Aeolis"):

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

Holonyms ("Aeolis" is a part of...):

Anatolia; Asia Minor (a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey)