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Eleusis

Eleusis is the alternative form of Elefsina.

Meaning of Elefsina

Proper noun

Elefsina

  1. A suburban city and municipality in the West Attica regional unit regional unit of Greece, site of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
    • The city of Elefsina is located around 20 km outside Athens, in the western part of Attica, and it has approximately 30,000 inhabitants.2021, Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner, Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas, editors, The Politics of Local Innovation: Conditions for the Development of Innovations, Routledge, →ISBN

Questions about Eleusis

What is Eleusis the alternative form of?
Eleusis is the alternative form of Elefsina.

Words near Eleusis in the dictionary

  1. eleusines
  2. Eleusinia
  3. Eleusinian
  4. Eleusinian Mysteries
  5. Eleusinion
  6. Eleusis
  7. Eleuthera
  8. Eleutherae
  9. Eleutheran
  10. Eleutherans
  11. eleutherarch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Eleusis (page history and authors); Elefsina (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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