Hellespont
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Ἑλλήσποντος (Hellḗspontos).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editthe Hellespont
- (historical) The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editstrait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea
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