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Phocæa

Phocæa is the obsolete form of Phocaea.

Meaning of Phocaea

Proper noun

Phocaea

  1. (Ancient Greece) An ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, now located in İzmir Province, Turkey; modern Foça.
    • Theirs were the cities of Myus, and Priene, Colophon, Ephesus, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomene, Erythræ, Phocæa, and Miletus:—in the islands of Samos and Chios were two cities of the same name as the isles themselves.1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 162
  2. 25 Phocaea, a main belt asteroid.
    Synonyms:
    25 Phocaea, ㉕

Questions about Phocæa

What is Phocæa the obsolete form of?
Phocæa is the obsolete form of Phocaea.

Words near Phocæa in the dictionary

  1. phocomelia
  2. phocomelias
  3. phocomelic
  4. phocomelous
  5. phocomelus
  6. Phocæa
  7. Phocæan
  8. Phocæans
  9. phoebe
  10. Phoebean
  11. phoebes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Phocæa (page history and authors); Phocaea (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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