chian
Speech parts
1. chian - Noun
2. chian - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.
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Examples
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.
A team of rescuers arrived at around 3pm to find Warapond Nuansri, 29, with her head trapped inside the fuel display box at a PT petrol station in Chian Yai district.
Columbus was friendly with a number of Chian Genoese families, referenced Chios in his writings and used the Greek language for some of his notes. citation 'Columbus' remains a common surname on Chios.
At Lade, the Chian fleet doggedly continued to fight the Persian fleet even after the defection of the Samians and others, but the Chians were ultimately forced to retreat and were again subjected to Persian domination.
The boom of Chian shipping took place with the successful transition from sailing vessels to steam.
“People have collected data off west of Sumatra, eastern parts of Indonesia and southeastern part of Java,” said Professor Peter Ng, head of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore (NUS).