Naxos

[ nak-sos, -sohs, -suhs; Greek nah-ksaws ]

noun

1. a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).

Naxos

/ ˈnæksɒs /

noun

1. a Greek island in the S Aegean, the largest of the Cyclades: ancient centre of the worship of Dionysius. Pop: 18 188 (2001). Area: 438 sq km (169 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Among the most valuable artifacts on display Tuesday was a fourth-century Naxos silver coin depicting god of wine Dionysius that was looted from an illicit excavation site in Sicily before 2013 and smuggled to the United Kingdom.

From Seattle Times

He’d like to take on Strauss’ Apollo in “Daphne” and Bacchus in “Ariadne auf Naxos” one day.

From Seattle Times

For the genuine article, try Naxos’ new, unabridged recording of “The Phantom of the Opera,” in which the sumptuous grotesqueries of Gaston Leroux’s oft-adapted 1910 novel are further empurpled by the rich sepulchral timbre of Bill Homewood’s voice, in a deliciously ghastly narration.

From Seattle Times

One of her early roles was the title character in Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos,″ and when she performed it at the Met, Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times that her sound was so “arrestingly powerful and visceral” that “you feel it as almost physical presence — pressing against your chest, raising the hairs on the back of your neck.”

From Seattle Times

Both the Eid Mar and Sicily Naxos coins were seized by US authorities and repatriated earlier this year to their countries of origin - Greece and Italy.

From BBC