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Leros

Leros proper noun: an island and municipality of Greece, part of the Dodecanese in the southeastern Aegean Sea.

leros: an island and municipality of Greece, part of the Dodecanese in the southeastern Aegean Sea
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Proper noun

Leros

  1. An island and municipality of Greece, part of the Dodecanese in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
    • Hugely expensive “closed controlled” holding facilities have replaced squalid camps on Samos, Leros and Kos, and similar centres for asylum seekers are expected to open in Lesbos and Chios this year.2023 February 26, Helena Smith, “Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes”, in The Guardian

Origin of Leros

Borrowed from Greek Λέρος (Léros).

Questions about Leros

What does Leros mean?
Leros means an island and municipality of Greece, part of the Dodecanese in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
What part of speech is Leros?
Leros is a proper noun.

Words near Leros in the dictionary

  1. Lernæan
  2. lerodalcibep
  3. LeRoi
  4. leroij
  5. leronlimab
  6. Leros
  7. lerot
  8. lerots
  9. Leroux
  10. LeRoy
  11. lerp

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