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Plataea is an English word with synonyms like town. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Plataea meaning

An ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes.

Synonyms of Plataea

town battle of plataea pitched battle

Related words

Other words often associated with Plataea or its synonyms:

engagement battle township fight townsfolk municipality conflict townspeople

Using Plataea

  • The main meaning on this page is: An ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes.
  • Useful related words include: town, battle of plataea, pitched battle.
  • In the example corpus, plataea often appears in combinations such as: of plataea, at plataea, plataea and.

Context around Plataea

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 30.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

perhaps 1× put 1×

Sentence patterns with Plataea

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

artemis at plataea where actaeon 1× battle of plataea perhaps because 1× battles of plataea and mycale 1× city of plataea which had 1× front of plataea 1× thermopylae and plataea had been 1× victory at plataea he led 1× victory at plataea put an 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after the victory 1× even though this 1× he writes of 1× holland p 366 1× holland pp 333 1× lacy identifies the 1×

Common sentence endings:

aristeides11 3 4 1× athens and sparta 1× entire greek expedition 1× expanding into europe 1× front of plataea 1× of the persians 1×

Words around Plataea

Just before it in the word index:

plata 70 plat 47 plaszczak 2 plastrons 3 plastron 3 plastoglobuli 6

Just after it in the word index:

platanitos 2 plate 2.953 plateau 716 plateaued 35 plateauing 11 plateaus 65

Similar in corpus frequency:

aardwolf 12 aargau 12 abacos 12 abcon 12 abdelhamid 12 abdeslam 12

Corpus analysis for Plataea

  • In this selection, "plataea" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, perhaps and put stand out and add context to how "plataea" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include artemis at plataea where actaeon and battle of plataea perhaps because. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "plataea" sits close to words such as aardwolf, aargau and abacos, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with plataea

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

He writes of Plataea and Melos, two small polities caught in the maelstrom of great-power conflict between Athens and Sparta. (21 words)

Leonidas I of Sparta The decisive Greek victory at Plataea put an end to the Greco-Persian War along with Persian ambition of expanding into Europe. (26 words)

Lacy identifies the site of Actaeon's transgression as a spring sacred to Artemis at Plataea where Actaeon was a hero archegetes ("hero-founder") Plutarch, Aristeides11.3-4. (28 words)

Longer example sentences

Holland, p.366 Like the Battles of Marathon and Thermopylae, Salamis has gained something of a 'legendary' status (unlike, for instance, the more decisive Battle of Plataea), perhaps because of the desperate circumstances and the unlikely odds. (37 words)

Even though this war was won by a pan-Greek army, credit was given to Sparta, who besides being the protagonist at Thermopylae and Plataea, had been the de facto leader of the entire Greek expedition. (36 words)

The Spartan General Pausanias, in order to to reach a water supply under the cover of darkness, moved the Greek center back to the base of the Cithaeron hill just in front of Plataea. (34 words)

Example sentences (9)

The Spartan General Pausanias, in order to to reach a water supply under the cover of darkness, moved the Greek center back to the base of the Cithaeron hill just in front of Plataea.

After the victory at Plataea, he led the Greek fleet first to Cyprus, of which he captured a large part, and then to Byzantium, a rich, heavily-fortified supply base of the Persians.

He writes of Plataea and Melos, two small polities caught in the maelstrom of great-power conflict between Athens and Sparta.

Even though this war was won by a pan-Greek army, credit was given to Sparta, who besides being the protagonist at Thermopylae and Plataea, had been the de facto leader of the entire Greek expedition.

Holland, p.366 Like the Battles of Marathon and Thermopylae, Salamis has gained something of a 'legendary' status (unlike, for instance, the more decisive Battle of Plataea), perhaps because of the desperate circumstances and the unlikely odds.

Holland, pp.333–335 At the following battles of Plataea and Mycale, the threat of conquest was removed, and the Allies were able to go on the counter-offensive.

Lacy identifies the site of Actaeon's transgression as a spring sacred to Artemis at Plataea where Actaeon was a hero archegetes ("hero-founder") Plutarch, Aristeides11.3-4.

Leonidas I of Sparta The decisive Greek victory at Plataea put an end to the Greco-Persian War along with Persian ambition of expanding into Europe.

Mardonius retreated to Boeotia to lure the Greeks into open terrain and the two sides eventually met near the city of Plataea (which had been razed the previous year).

Common combinations with plataea

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "plataea" in a sentence?
An example: "The Spartan General Pausanias, in order to to reach a water supply under the cover of darkness, moved the Greek center back to the base of the Cithaeron hill just in front of Plataea." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "plataea" from authentic English texts.
What does "plataea" mean?
Plataea means: An ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes.
What are synonyms of "plataea"?
Common synonyms of "plataea" include: town, battle of plataea, pitched battle.
How many example sentences with "plataea" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "plataea", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.