lesvian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An inhabitant or a resident of Lesvos (Lesbos).
Example Sentences
- "Since Lesvos is mainly a mountainous area and sometimes lacks sufficient water, the Lesvian agriculture is characterised by terrace-cultivation."
- "For example, in a discussion of the Lesvian dialect of Greek which is otherwise devoted to documenting Paradigm Uniformity effects, Gafos and Ralli mention that the usual rule of unstressed high vowel deletion fails to apply when the deletion would result in a loss of morphological information."
- "The connection between the Lesvian capital of Mytilene and Aivali was especially strong, as the latter was founded by Lesvian migrants in the sixteenth century and the two communities were bound by both business and blood."
- "There home in the Hyde Park neighborhood was the site or weekly rehearsals and dinners that were a perfect encapsulation of this meeting of Mediterranean socialities, Ottoman-era modal dance music preceded by home-cooked Italian and Greek delicacies and accompanied by Lesvian ouzo."
- "Mytilini, or Lesvos, as it is often called, is a large Greek lisland in a gulf formed by the Turkish coast in the northern corner of the Aegean Sea. Local residents refer to themselves as "Lesvians"."
- "Among the Lesvians, Hjalmar Dahm and Georgios Sitaras offered invaluable logistical assistance and field help."