| 单词 | seven islands |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSeven Islands Seven Islands n. a chain of about forty Greek islands in the Ionian Sea, situated off the western coast of mainland Greece (see Ionian islands n. at Ionian adj.1 and n.2 Compounds), having seven principal members, namely Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakinthos, Paxos, Lefkas, and Kythira; cf. Septinsular adj.Between 1815 and 1864 these islands constituted a British protectorate called the United States of the Ionian Islands, after which time they became part of the modern Greek state. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [noun] > Ionian Islands Seven Islands1803 1803 G. Rose Diary 20 Feb. (1860) II. 20 The republic of the Seven Islands. 1945 ‘C. S. Forester’ Commodore xviii. 198 He had drunk resinated wine in the Seven Islands. 2010 J. Potts Ionian Islands & Epirus Pref. p. vii. Kythira, although once considered part of the Seven Islands or Eptanisos, is no longer treated as one of the Ionian Islands administratively or geographically. < as lemmas |
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