Pharos Definition

fârŏs
noun
A lighthouse.
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pronoun

A small island off Alexandria where the Lighthouse of Alexandria was located.

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Origin of Pharos

  • Latin from Greek after Pharos , a peninsula, formerly an island, in the Mediterranean Sea at Alexandria, Egypt, and site of an ancient lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the World

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pharos).

    From Wiktionary

Pharos Sentence Examples

  • The cape at the western end of the peninsula is Ras et-Tin (Cape of Figs); the eastern cape is known as Pharos or Kait Bey.

  • Alexandria consisted originally of little more than the island of Pharos, which was joined to the mainland by a mole nearly a mile long and called the Heptastadium.

  • The Ras et-Tin quarter represents all that is left of the island of Pharos, the site of the actual lighthouse having been weathered away by the sea.

  • On the eastern point of the Pharos island stood the Great Lighthouse, one of the "Seven Wonders," reputed to be 400 ft.

  • If such a city was to be on the Egyptian coast, there was only one possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mouths.

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