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Elis

Elis proper noun: an ancient Greek city-state in northwestern Peloponnese, modern Greece.

Proper noun

Elis

  1. (historical) An ancient Greek city-state in northwestern Peloponnese, modern Greece.
  2. A regional unit of modern Greece in West Greece, corresponding to the area once ruled by the city-state.

Noun capitalized: ELIs

ELIs

  1. (plural) plural of ELI

Origin of Elis

From Ancient Greek Ἦλις (Êlis).

Questions about Elis

What does Elis mean?
Elis means an ancient Greek city-state in northwestern Peloponnese, modern Greece.
What part of speech is Elis?
Elis can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Elis in the dictionary

  1. eliquated
  2. eliquates
  3. eliquating
  4. eliquation
  5. eliquations
  6. Elis
  7. ELISA
  8. Elisabeth
  9. Elisabetha
  10. Elisabethpol
  11. Elisabethville

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Elis (page history and authors); ELIs (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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