Get to know Samos better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Samos in a sentence
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Samos meaning
- An island belonging to the Sporades and a city on it, in the Aegean.
- A modern Greek prefecture in the eastern part of the Aegean that includes the island along with the islands of Icaria and Fourni.
Using Samos
- The main meaning on this page is: An island belonging to the Sporades and a city on it, in the Aegean. | A modern Greek prefecture in the eastern part of the Aegean that includes the island along with the islands of Icaria and Fourni.
- In the example corpus, samos often appears in combinations such as: of samos, samos and, in samos.
Context around Samos
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Samos
- In this selection, "samos" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vega, kathimerini, developed, inside and polycrates stand out and add context to how "samos" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allies at samos antony moved and aristarchus of samos developed the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "samos" sits close to words such as abominable, acolytes and acv, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with samos
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cordons were in place at the scene on Samos Road. (10 words)
After staying with his allies at Samos, Antony moved to Athens. (11 words)
The shallow tremor triggered a mini-tsunami that flooded Izmir and Samos. (12 words)
Biography collapsible His parents, Neocles and Chaerestrate, both Athenian-born, and his father a citizen, had emigrated to the Athenian settlement on the Aegean island of Samos about ten years before Epicurus's birth in February 341 BC. (38 words)
Andocides, De Reditu §§ 11,12 But no sooner were the oligarchs informed of the return of Andocides, than their leader Peisander had him seized, and accused him of having supported the party opposed to them at Samos. (37 words)
Because of its proximity to Turkey—the strait between Samos and the Turkish mainland is only about a mile wide in one place—there has long been a marked military presence on the island as well. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Aristarchus of Samos developed the first mathematical formula of astronomy to calculate planet size.
Despite concerns, a new pre-removal detention centre is set to open on the island of Samos, inside an existing closed reception facility.
His sister, Elvia Vega Samos, would emerge victorious in the by-elections and become his successor for Corozal Bay.
In 524 BC Samian fugitives came in peace to Sifnos; they were political opponents of the shrewd tyrant of Samos, Polycrates, and asked the residents of Sifnos to help them economically.
According to Hellenic Coast Guard, from early Friday to early Saturday 180 migrants reached the islands of Eastern Aegean, Lesbos and Samos in sea crossings.
In Samos, Greece, in the 6 century, mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras introduced his famous theorem Awhich explained the mathematical relationship between the three sides of a right angle triangle.
On the Greek island of Samos, near the quake’s epicentre, people rushed out into the streets in panic.
People rushed into the streets on Samos and other islands following the tremor, which Greek officials put at magnitude 6.6 and the US Geological Survey at 7.0.
The shallow tremor triggered a mini-tsunami that flooded Izmir and Samos.
Because of its proximity to Turkey—the strait between Samos and the Turkish mainland is only about a mile wide in one place—there has long been a marked military presence on the island as well.
Officials on Lesbos and Samos islands have already criticised the planned new camps, which are each intended to hold more than 5,000 people.
On Monday a fire broke out at an overcrowded camp above Vathy, the port town of Samos, after inter-ethnic clashes.
Sarah Griffith witnessed a fire at a refugee camp in Samos which left 700 people with nothing.
The plight of refugees on the Greek island of Samos is worsening, but a woman from Ardfern is doing her bit amid the chaos.
Cordons were in place at the scene on Samos Road.
In comments to Kathimerini, Samos Mayor Michalis Angelopoulos said he has not been officially informed of the plans.
After staying with his allies at Samos, Antony moved to Athens.
Andocides, De Reditu §§ 11,12 But no sooner were the oligarchs informed of the return of Andocides, than their leader Peisander had him seized, and accused him of having supported the party opposed to them at Samos.
Astronomy main Aristarchus of Samos published work on how to determine the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon, and Eratosthenes used this work to figure the size of the Earth.
Biography collapsible His parents, Neocles and Chaerestrate, both Athenian-born, and his father a citizen, had emigrated to the Athenian settlement on the Aegean island of Samos about ten years before Epicurus's birth in February 341 BC.
Common combinations with samos
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of samos 17×
- samos and 6×
- in samos 5×
- and samos 3×
- at samos 3×
- on samos 2×
- between samos 2×
- samos was 2×
- samos bce 2×
- left samos 2×