Delos

[ dee-los, del-ohs ]

noun

1. a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: site of an oracle of Apollo.

Delos

/ ˈdiːlɒs /

noun

1. a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades: a commercial centre in ancient times; the legendary birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Area: about 5 sq km (2 sq miles) Modern Greek nameDhílos

Example Sentences

Among those killed in the war on drugs was high-school student Kian delos Santos, whose death in 2017 led to the first convictions of police officers in the drugs war, and was featured in a report by a former ICC prosecutor.

From Reuters

It is located next to the tiny and uninhabited island of Delos, an ancient commercial, religious and political center that is considered one of Greece’s most important archaeological sites.

From Seattle Times

Its citizens consulted the oracle at Delos, who advised them to double the size of Apollo’s altar, which was cube-shaped.

From Literature

In 1936 Margherita Piazzolla Beloch, an Italian mathematician at the University of Ferrara, published a paper that proved that starting with a length L on a piece of paper, she could fold a length that was the cube root of L. She may not have realized it at the time, but this meant that origami could solve the problem given to the Greeks at Delos, where the oracle demanded that the Athenians double the volume of a cube.

From Literature

In a rare conviction, a Philippine court found three policemen guilty of involvement in Kian delos Santos’s death in a slum in suburban Caloocan city after rejecting their claim that he opened fire at them with a pistol, prompting them to fire back.

From Seattle Times