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Patmos

[ pat-mos, -mohs, -muhs; Greek paht-maws ]

noun

  1. one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the southwestern coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Revelation 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).


Patmos

/ ˈpætmɒs /

noun

  1. a Greek island in the Aegean, in the NW Dodecanese: St John's place of exile (about 95 ad ), where he wrote the Apocalypse. Pop: 2984 (2001). Area: 34 sq km (13 sq miles)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He thinks of how the ocean-waves keep pounding, with cannon-roar, on the rocky beach of his Patmos prison isle.

He spoke to John of them on the Isle of Patmos, and used the very things in them that men are trying to cast out.

Our pity goes out not to "the ordinary intelligence," but to the cloudy dweller in Patmos.

In this retirement—a Patmos amid the howling ocean of popery that surrounds us—a letter from England has reached me at last.

St. John was put into a caldron of boiling oil, but escaped death in a miraculous manner, and was afterwards banished to Patmos.

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