kyrenian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A native or inhabitant of Kyrenia.
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "The Kyrenian party tried to get a majority by filling the third see, Paphos, with one of their friends."
- "The firing in Nicosia began shortly before 6 A.M. when Greek Cypriote antiaircraft guns opened up on flights of Turkish transports sweeping in over the Kyrenian mountain range."
- "In political talks in Geneva, the Turkish government delayed attempts to scale down its Cyprus force and took advantage of the situation by broadening its Kyrenian beachhead in open defiance of a ceasefire agreement."
- "Because of their stunning locations and the absolute solitude, a visit to the elusive mountain monasteries of the Kyrenian range can be a magical experience, the expectation heightened by the effort it takes to reach them."
- "One day he was flying over the Kyrenian range with UN forces and carrying their markings when he received a radio message saying that a Greek boy had been badly injured during the factional strife in the area."
- "My Lord of Kyrenia is a very pious Churchman and godly bishop. His enemies say that he is a poor, weak creature, quite unfit to guide the Cypriote Church. All the Philhellenes are for him of Kition; the English Government would prefer the Kyrenian."
Etymology
From Kyrenia + -an.