Hellespont
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ἑλλήσποντος (Hellḗspontos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]the Hellespont
- (historical) The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea
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