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Pharos
[ fair-os ]
noun
- a small peninsula in northern Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- the lighthouse on this peninsula. Compare Seven Wonders of the World.
- (lowercase) any lighthouse or beacon to direct sailors.
Pharos
/ ˈfɛərɒs /
noun
- a large Hellenistic lighthouse built on an island off Alexandria in Egypt in about 280 bc and destroyed by an earthquake in the 14th century: usually included among the Seven Wonders of the World
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Origin of Pharos1
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Example Sentences
Even when the Pharos was reared, the primitive mode of illumination by means of wood or coal was employed.
He stood like a Pharos, and the light of his face kindled the crests of the living waves around him.
Proteus is called the Carpathian wizard because his cave was on the island of Pharos, or Carpathos.
The same year, the island of Pharos itself, originally seven furlongs distant from the continent, was joined to it by a causeway.
A handsome cutter, called ‘The Pharos,’ is stationed here as a tender to the lighthouse.
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