A Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the south-west of the Cyclades group. It was the centre of a flourishing civilization in the Bronze Age and is the site of the discovery in 1820 of a Hellenistic marble statue of Aphrodite, the Venus de Milo.
Greek name Mílos
Rhymes
Delos
Definition of Melos in US English:
Melos
proper nounˈmēläs
A Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the southwest of the Cyclades group. It was the center of a flourishing civilization in the Bronze Age and is the site of the discovery in 1820 of a Hellenistic marble statue of Aphrodite, the Venus de Milo.